Re: lilypond-invoke-editor in Windows

[Aaron Hill]

On 2018-10-31 12:34 am, David Kastrup wrote:
> Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm trying again to make lilypond-invoke-editor work in Windows.
> > Someone managed to make it work using Windows Subsystem for Linux,
> > that is installing the LylyPond Linux binary in Windows. But I'd like
> > to use the installation for Windows.
> >
> > I think I'm really close to it.
> > The easiest setup seems to add all the necessary environment variables
> > and add LilyPond bin/ directory to the path.
> > Now I'm at a point where in Git Bash I can easily run
> > lilypond-invoke-editor without errors.
> > Except when I try to open a URI and the $(file)s, $(line)s and
> > $(column)s variables are not expanded. What do you think it's missing?
> > It may be a bug in editor.scm?
> >
> > $ echo $LYEDITOR
> > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --goto
> > $(file)s:$(line)s:$(column)s
> >
> > $ lilypond-invoke-editor
> > textedit:///c/Users/test/Documents/test.ly:1:1:1
> > Arguments in `--goto` mode should be in the format of
> > `FILE(:LINE(:CHARACTER))`.
> > lilypond-invoke-editor (GNU LilyPond) 2.19.82
>
> You have one :1 too many.

Technically, the format is file:line:char:column, so you can have three 
values.  Granted, I've never quite understood the distinction between 
"char" and "column".  Usually column is one more than char, so perhaps 
it's a count-from-zero vs. count-from-one thing.  *shrug*

But I think the original issue is the use of $(file)s instead of 
%(file)s.  editor.scm expects a percent sign if I am reading the code 
correctly.

-- Aaron Hill