Editor support - GNU LilyPond
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### 12.6 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 read the installation instructions.
VIM
  For VIM, a `vimrc` is supplied, along with syntax coloring tools. For more information, refer to the installation instructions.
JEdit
  The jEdit editor has a LilyPond plugin. This plugin includes a DVI viewer, integrated help and viewing via GhostScript. It can be installed by doing <Plugins > Plugin Manager>, and selecting `LilyTool` from the <Install> tab.

All these editors can be made to jump into the input file to the source of a symbol in the graphical output. See Point and click.

This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).

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