VS Code also provide point and click. Snippets and wizards are tipical features for any other programming language in VS Code. It should not be too difficult to write them for lilypond.
I understand that it can be difficult to find the developers and mantainers to keep Frescobaldi runnig, but not so difficult to implement such features in VS Code, I believe. That would be my case, for instamve, and provably other it could be the same fornother people: I develope with VS Code and participate in other communities and I might help on developing the lilypond plugins, but I don't have enough knowledge to develope Frescobaldi.
Robert
On 30 d’abr. de 2024, at 8:11, Jean Abou Samra < jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
FYI, what I like the most about Frescobaldi are:
* Templates and wizards
* Snippets
* Point and Click selection
* Syntax highlighting
If Frescobaldi for Mac does indeed vanish, what are my alternatives for a
Lilypond editor?
Syntax highlighting should be doable in Emacs, VS Code or such. Point and click
can be arranged with various PDF viewers (see the LilyPond Usage manual).
The other two only exist in Frescobaldi AFAIK.
Also, how can I help? (I'm not a programmer at all...)
Thanks, but you cannot really help in a way meaningful for the current
issues without programming knowledge.
Also, for the record, Frescobaldi needs developers, but perhaps
even more importantly, it needs maintainers, i.e., people who will
not just work on a technical problem because they were told
it's important, but also proactively and autonomously respond
to GitHub issues and support questions, update the website,
figure out what parts of the code need regular maintenance like
lists of LilyPond commands and maintain them, monitor the
frescobaldi package in major Linux distros, and so on.
Unfortunately, it can be really hard to find maintainers (even for
projects that the entire world infrastructure relies on, cf. xz…).
Best,
Jean
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