On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 22:13:38 +0000 (GMT), Forgeot wrote:
I don't want to add any arbitraryfiletypes. We should limit the list of filetypes to those which are commonly used. I think this "abc" should not be added.
well, it's a pity because every major text editor I know has support for abc:
- Emacs has an external plugin:
http://www.geocities.com/mkjunker/abc-mode.el.html
(It's also easier to include external support for this kind of editor because they don't need to be recompiled)
- Vim has built-in syntax hightlight for ABC, it's included in the
svn:
http://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/vim7/runtime/syntax/abc.vim?revisi...
- Kate has built-in syntax highlight too:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kate/syntax/data/abc.xml?view=markup
I'm developping also a linux live-cd dedicated to the use of ABC notation, among other things. It uses the Gnome desktop and Geany as the main text editor:
http://anamnese.online.fr/site2/esclinux/esclinux2009_gnome1.png
I can patch myself every new release of Geany to get the abc support, but modifying 6 files just for this is quite an heavy work.
Only Geany has such amazing feature such as the tagmanager, it's the reason I wish Geany can support many filetypes. If it was only a matter of including a definition file into my ~/.geany, I wouldn't bug you for including it into the svn, I'd only propose it on my website.
Here is a picture of Geany displaying a tunebook: http://anamnese.online.fr/site2/esclinux/kde_geany_abc1.png
Damn, you have really sweet arguments...especially a Linux distribution with Geany as the editor...how can I not add your patch then?
I'm puzzled but if Nick doesn't disagree, I think we could go for it. Even though we have already a wild bunch of minor used filetypes, we have nothing related to music :).
Regards, Enrico