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?revision=1586&view=markup > >- 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 -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc
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