5.7 Editor support
There is support from different editors for LilyPond.
- Emacs
- Emacs has a lilypond-mode, which provides keyword
autocompletion, indentation, LilyPond specific parenthesis matching
and syntax coloring, handy compile short-cuts and reading LilyPond
manuals using Info. If lilypond-mode is not installed on your
platform, then refer to the installation instructions for more
information.
- VIM
-
For VIM, a vimrc is supplied, along with
syntax coloring tools. For more information, refer to the
installation instructions.
For both editors, there is also a facility to jump in the input file
to the source of errors in the graphical output. See Point and click.
- JEdit
-
There exists a plugin for jEdit. Refer to
the plugin website for more
information.