Hmm it could be. I downloaded the source code so I could get images in the
info files. I noticed yesterday actually that the source version was going
to /use/local . I'll try and set the prefix correctly when I compile and
see if I can get just one version of LP.
Thanks for catching that!
On Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 10:44 AM David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk>
wrote:
> On Fri 05 Apr 2024 at 20:43:01 (-0600), Ben Bradshaw wrote:
> > I've been using frescobaldi mostly because I like the point and click
> > functionality. I just discovered today that you can configure that to
> work
> > with other PDF viewers and editors, which I would like to do, since I
> keep
> > trying to use emacs bindings inside frescobaldi....
> > Anyways, I thought that I had everything figured out. But when I try and
> > click I get some stuff showing up in an emacs buffer.
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-invoke-editor", line 122, in <module>
> > editor_commands = [list(map(replace_template, cmd)) for cmd in
> > editor_commands]
> >
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-invoke-editor", line 122, in <listcomp>
> > editor_commands = [list(map(replace_template, cmd)) for cmd in
> > editor_commands]
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-invoke-editor", line 79, in
> replace_template
> > return template % {
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > ValueError: unsupported format character ':' (0x3a) at index 25
> >
> > Is this a problem with the program or my config? I'm using arch linux,
> > herbstluftwm window manager (followed the settings for GNOME 3 to get a
> > desktop entry, otherwise it would only launch firefox), zathura as PDF
> > viewer, emacs as LYEDITOR.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated so I can stop doing C-x C-s every
> > time I want to save!
>
> I'm not sure why you have /usr/local/bin/ occurring in your error
> messages as I don't see any string "local/" on the page:
>
> https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/lilypond/files/
>
> Is there any possibility that you have multiple versions of LP
> installed, and that one version is calling another?
>
> BTW you can bisect the problem and test lilypond-invoke-editor
> separately at the command line just by typing:
>
> $ lilypond-invoke-editor textedit://FFFFFFFF:LL:CC:CC
>
> FFFFFFFF is a .ly file, LL a line number, CC a column number
> (actual numbers not important), as in:
>
> $ lilypond-invoke-editor textedit:///tmp/blue.ly:50:10:10
>
> Either of:
>
> $ type lilypond-invoke-editor
> $ which lilypond-invoke-editor
>
> will tell you which executable is being run. But if your Gnome3
> settings include a path for that executable, you obviously need
> to test it with that path.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
