Re: point-and-click to "other" editors

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno gio 14 giu 2018 alle 6:52, Federico Bruni 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> 2. Configure other editors
> IIUC, lilypond-invoke editors is set up to work well with emacs, gvim 
> and nedit, in that I can simply write:
>
> LYEDITOR=emacsclient
>
> and this will be translated to:
>
> emacsclient --no-wait +%(line)s:%(column)s %(file)s
>
> Now what if I want to use a different editor?
> I did it in the past with Frescobaldi (to get point-and-clcik from an 
> external PDF), but I cannot remember how.
> I'm now trying gedit, which does support  opening a file in a certain 
> point.
>
> I've tried the following but none works:
>
> LYEDITOR=gedit # this will open gedit but not in the desired 
> line:column
> LYEDITOR=`gedit +%(line)s:%(column)s %(file)s` # this is not correct 
> syntax, as 'source ~/.bashrc' complains

I was using the wrong syntax. I should have wrapped the command in "". 
I'll add an explicit example in the documentation.

Here's an editor I'm testing now:

export LYEDITOR="geany --line %(line)s --column %(column)s %(file)s"