Re: Best Text Editor

[Jonathan Kulp]

I think Kwrite has the nicest syntax coloring, and for that reason I 
installed the Kubuntu desktop on my Ubuntu machine.  I don't really like 
KDE, though, so most often I end up using Gedit instead, choosing the 
LaTeX coloring (not great).  I might try Kate with LilyKDE, though. 
That sounds promising.

JEdit has a nice Lilypond tool but in my latest install it looks really 
bad.  I think I must have chosen the wrong Java environment or 
something.  It's very grainy and cheap looking.  I like the pdf preview 
function in JEdit, but it's not really necessary for me anymore because 
I wrote a shell script that does essentially the same thing.

Emacs, to me, doesn't look good in a graphical environment (I think it's 
the same problem as JEdit? Grainy and fuzzy-looking), and the 
keybindings are all messed up, too.  Every time I hit Alt+f I end up in 
the file menu instead of moving forward one word.  Maybe there's a way 
to turn this off, but in the meantime the only way I can use Emacs is in 
a command-line-only environment.

Jon


Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
> Op donderdag 5 juni 2008, schreef stefanozanobini:
> > I'm looking for the best text editor in Linux for Lilypond usage.
> > I suppose Kwrite is quite good, it gives me clearly the structure of a .ly
> > file (with colors and bolds), but not always.
> > Is there a text editor with a specific and complete extensive lilypond
> > hilighter?
>
> A recent KWrite or Kate (from KDE 3.5.8 or 3.5.9) should have quite good 
> syntax highlighting. For older Kate versions, you can download the updated 
> syntax definitions for LilyPond from 
> http://www.kate-editor.org/syntax/2.5/lilypond.xml .  Put the file in 
> ~/.kde/share/apps/katepart/syntax/ (create the directory if it does not 
> exist) and restart Kate.
>
> There is also a special LilyPond plugin for Kate named LilyKDE (I wrote it 
> myself :-) with features such as a quick score wizard and "live" note entry 
> using Rumor and a MIDI keyboard (or your computer keyboard). It runs in Kate 
> (not KWrite) and it can be found at http://lilykde.googlecode.com/ . LilyKDE 
> also contains even more up-to-date syntax highlighting.
>
> best regards,
> Wilbert Berendsen

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