Re: Point & Click with Atom

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Martín,

I didn’t read the documentation before, and I’m on OSX, so I can’t try.

It looks like you need the setup for GNOME *and* the environment variable.

Did you try to do what the docs say?

Hraban

> Am 31.10.2020 um 18:21 schrieb Martín Rincón Botero 
> <martinrinconbotero@gmail.com>:
> 
> Dear Henning,
> 
> thank you for your answer. I don't think I understand correctly. I open a 
> terminal and type export LYEDITOR=atom, hit Enter and then write something 
> like lilypond myfile.ly? If it works (I just tried that and it didn't), I add 
> the export line to .bashrc and then follow the steps in the Manual for Gnome 
> 3 (I'm using Ubuntu 18.04)?
> 
> Am Sa., 31. Okt. 2020 um 18:03 Uhr schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm 
> <lilypondml@fiee.net>:
> 
> > Am 31.10.2020 um 17:45 schrieb Martín Rincón Botero 
> > <martinrinconbotero@gmail.com>:
> > 
> > I went over the Usage Manual for trying to configure Point & Click so that 
> > I can use it with Atom (as much as I like Frescobaldi, its poor performance 
> > with large scores makes it unusable after a certain number of lines of 
> > code). The usage manual 
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/usage/configuring-the-system-for-point-and-click
> >  says to "simply" write this line export LYEDITOR=atom, but doesn't say 
> > where. After that I suppose I can go to the GNOME 3 steps and follow them, 
> > but since those steps don't mention any particular editor, I guess I should 
> > first know what to do with said export line.
> 
> Try if it works in your shell (e.g. bash) before you call lilypond.
> 
> If it works, you should add it to the startup file of your default shell, 
> e.g. .bashrc or .bash_profile
> 
> Hraban
> 
> 
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