Re: Lilypond language definition for Notepad++

[James E. Bailey]

Ah, I understand. nano loads a config file when it starts, so if a file's extension matches any of the ones defined in the config file, it then loads the appropriate syntax.

As to what I decided to hilight. That was a completely personal issue, and since it was my first (and only) attempt at using regex, I'm sure it could be improved. But, I limited myself to the following (in increasing order of importance, since if something fits two definitions, nano will use the one defined later in the config file:

• expressions within curly braces

• chords (expressions within angle-brackets)

• simultaneous expressions (expressions within double angle-brackets) (note, these last two don't really work very well together, apparently I'd need a parser in order to separate something like << <> >> which can exist and quite often does exist in a lilypond file. It was enough for me to simply have them colored differently so I could see them easily.)

• slurs and phrasing slurs

• articulations

• music functions (anything starting with a leading \ )

• note names

• dynamics

• notes beamed together

• anything within quotation marks

• Scheme expressions

• comments

You may find different things important to you. My regex is far from perfect, but, it exists, and it means that I don't have to learn another editor. And if something doesn't please me in the way the syntax hilighting works, I know how to change it.

On 19.08.2009, at 18:22, -Eluze wrote:

James E. Bailey-3 wrote:

 No searching, or maybe I misunderstand what you mean.

i guess you had to apply this regex to a file or files - were these all

lilypond (program-) files or did you go thru the docs or what?

 an additional question of course is, if you found *all* lilypond

expressions, functions or whatever - how many results did you get?

tia

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