Re: Editing lilypond files with Geany

[Federico Bruni]

Hi Tanguy,

thank you so much for the info.
I've been looking for a lightweight editor for some time (I'm currently
using Gedit and the embedded terminal, but Geany seems better and
promising).

I've tried to set it up but it's not working.
I've downloaded the svn version:

aptitude install subversion
svn co https://geany.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geany/trunk geany
cd geany
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Fine so far.

Then I launched Geany and opened Tool>>Configuration
files>>filetype_extensions.conf

I've added the line:
LilyPond=*.ly;

and saved in ~/.config/geany/filetype_extensions.conf

Then I created the file ~/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.lilypond
(see the attached file, very basic... if you want to share your file I'd
be curious)

I've closed and launched again Geany, but there is not any new filetype
in Document>>Set filetype>>Custom filetypes
And if I open a .ly file Geany does not understand it's a LilyPond file.

I'm surely missing something.
Can you help me?

Thanks,
Federico


On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 18:19 +0200, Tanguy Léost wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> just in case someone might be interested:
> 
> I just compiled the SVN version of geany (0.19).
> Geany now supports  the creation of custom filetypes, so
> I created one for lilypond.
> It supports syntax highlighting, and one can define commands
> to invoke lilypond and a pdf viewer from the editor.
> 
> I worked a bit with it, and I think it is a
> decent alternative to emacs or jedit, especially
> for those who are looking for a lightweight editor.
> 
> Tanguy
>

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