Some people, like me for example, find it easier to edit the text files than to muck about with a mouse in a graphical editor, selecting or failing to select th

Some people, like me for example, find it easier to edit the text files than to muck about with a mouse in a graphical editor, selecting or failing to select the note, selecting the note duration from a pallet or menu, seems to take forever - in Lilypond I would just type c4 d2 e4 and I am done. JEdit provides a good preview mode and integration if you require it. However, the Lilypond input syntax could be improved a great deal - I don't think the multiple different types of braces used in syntax files should be necessary for example.