Re: lilypond-invoke-editor in Windows

[David Kastrup]

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.

-- 
David Kastrup