Re: [Fwd: Win XP Notepad-related lilypond bugs]

[Graham Percival]

Thanks, added as

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=534

Cheers,
- Graham


On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:51:41 +0100
Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:

> Two bugs on the notepad clone included with the LilyPond Windows
> package.
> 
>    /Mats
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:      Win XP Notepad-related lilypond bugs
> Date:         Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:49:38 -0800 (PST)
> From:         daf <address@hidden>
> To:   address@hidden
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying not to ask dumb questions, but I'm new here, so
> undoubtedly I will from time to time.
> 
> Anyhow, two problems with Notepad when invoked via right-click menu
> for a .ly file:
> 
> (1) - search does not work.  At all.  Doesn't matter how you invoke
> it (F3, from menu, or Ctrl-F), which options you choose, it just
> never finds anything.  Notepad by itself works fine, so it seems
> likely this is a lilypond bug.
> 
> (2) less critical, but still a negative user experience: when opening
> an .ly file for editing, the focus goes to the previous window (for
> me that's usually the Windows Explorer view of the directory) rather
> than to Notepad. This runs counter to practically every other Windows
> program I've ever used
> - and counter to the way Notepad works when run under its own power -
> and has caused me to mistakenly close windows and waste a lot of
> keystrokes before I remember to alt-tab back to my .ly file.  A
> definite usability deficit.
> 
> BTW, this happens on both my office machine (running XP Pro) and my
> laptop (running XP Personal).
> 
> Also BTW, I searched the user forum to see if these bugs had been
> reported: I got 154 hits, but Nabble only showed me 54 links and then
> stopped.  So apologies if these were in the other 100 that Nabble
> counted but didn't list.
> 
> IIUC, user-identified bugs go in the user forum, rather than the bug
> forum. Apologies if I got that wrong.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Daf (CSQE - could you tell?)
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