Re: mac osx point and click editor

[Sean Reed]

Hi again,

Same question, after some newly failed attempts on my part.

A new phrasing of the question:

Does anybody know how to change the text editor application that is  
opened when you point-and-click on a .pdf file of a lilypond score in  
MacOSX 10.4.6?

Is that even possible?

In chapter 12.7 of the current manual (2.9.3) it says lilypond-invoke- 
editor tests the environment variable for EDITOR.
I first changed the EDITOR in my .profile, but clicking on a note in  
the .pdf image still opened the appropriate .ly file with the  
LilyPond.app.

I then followed the directions in a rather old link from the apple  
developers website to create a .MacOSX folder and an  
environment.plist, and in that I put:
<key>EDITOR</key>
<string>the/path/to/my/other/text/application/</string>

...and logged out and back in.
Clicking on a note in the pdf image still opened the appropriate .ly  
file with LilyPond.app.

I have nothing against the LilyPond.app, but I do most of my texts  
with TextWrangler, including my lilypond scores, and I thought it  
would be convenient to have the point-and-click open the appropriate  
files again right into that editor.

I'd be very grateful for any clues.

Thanks,
Sean

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Sean Reed
Hamburg, Germany
www.seanreed.de


> >
> Reading Appendix D of the manual (2.8), it seems the default editor  
> for point
> and click indeed CAN be changed, but the manual is -- to me, at  
> least --
> completely unclear on how to do so. It is, at least, clear to me  
> that no
> fiddling with OS X (e.g. the Get Info advice I gave earlier) will  
> accomplish
> what you want. There's some kind of environment variable that must  
> be changed,
> and it looks like once you have done that you are in tall cotton.
>
>
> --
> Carrick Patterson
> Little Rock AR
>
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