My recollection is that lilypond mode is included by default in emacs now. I think you should just have to load the library. Have you tried the settings from a few messages ago in this thread?
On Fri, Jul 5, 2024, 8:05 PM Laurie Savage <savage.lau...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've fiddled with Emacs and Lilypond but it didn't find my includes files > that I keep in a directory in my /home directory. I tried setting that > through the settings buffer for Lilypond mode but it obviously didn't take. > > Has anybody found a video tutorial showing its use? > > Laurie > > > On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 at 06:49, Ben Bradshaw <bleeding.fl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Yeah pdf-tools is a good way to view PDFs within emacs. You can install >> it from the emacs package manager. >> >> On Fri, Jul 5, 2024, 1:41 PM Kenneth Flak <kennethf...@protonmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Aha, getting closer! This is all very helpful. I suspect I'm still >>> missing a couple of pieces of the puzzle, but I'm getting >>> something out of xpdf. I still need to figure out what/how this >>> whole pdf-tools thing is all about, though. Displaying pdfs inside >>> emacs, perhaps? >>> >>> Best, >>> K >>> >>> "Ben Bradshaw" <bleeding.fl...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> > Welcome to emacs, where hackish is normal ;) I did get point and >>> > click, basically by following the GNOME settings on this page >>> > >>> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/usage/configuring-the-system-for-point-and-click >>> > I had to do that even though I'm not using GNOME or a DE at >>> > all. You don't have to use pdf-tools (although I agree with >>> > Immanuel it is >>> > very good and you probably want it) but I got it working in both >>> > zathura and xpdf as well. >>> > >>> > I did have one caveat, it seems I need to open the pdf in >>> > zathura manually instead of using emacs C-c C-c menu. I haven't >>> > tried it with >>> > pdf-tools yet, so maybe that's just a zathura thing. If you get >>> > lilypond-invoke-editor errors it may be that. >>> > >>> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 4:25 AM Immanuel Litzroth >>> > <immanuel.litzr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > I posted a message a while back to get point-and-click +preview >>> > working >>> > in emacs a while back. It was titled "Point an Click & emacs", >>> > it requires >>> > pdf-tools -- which you want anyway :-) >>> > greetz, >>> > i >>> > >>> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 9:18 AM Kenneth Flak >>> > <kennethf...@protonmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > Thanks a lot, Ben! This seems to work very nicely indeed >>> > (although >>> > a bit on the hacky side ;-)) >>> > >>> > Did you get point-and-click working by any chance? >>> > >>> > Best, >>> > Kenneth >>> > >>> > "Ben Bradshaw" <bleeding.fl...@gmail.com> writes: >>> > >>> > > For me on Arch, I have to do this in my emacs init file: >>> > > (autoload 'LilyPond-mode "lilypond-mode") >>> > > (setq auto-mode-alist >>> > > (cons '("\\.ly$" . LilyPond-mode) auto-mode-alist)) >>> > > (setq auto-mode-alist >>> > > (cons '("\\.lyi$" . LilyPond-mode) auto-mode-alist)) >>> > > >>> > > (add-hook 'LilyPond-mode-hook (lambda () >>> > > (turn-on-font-lock))) >>> > > >>> > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 12:50 PM Gilles Sadowski >>> > > <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > > >>> > > Hello. >>> > > >>> > > Le jeu. 4 juil. 2024 à 17:05, Kenneth Flak >>> > > <kennethf...@protonmail.com> a écrit : >>> > > > >>> > > > "Kenneth Flak" <kennethf...@protonmail.com> writes: >>> > > > >>> > > > Sorry, forgot to add subject... Still getting used to mu4e >>> > > > :-D >>> > > > Kenneth >>> > > > >>> > > > > Hi list, >>> > > > > >>> > > > > I've started learning me a bit of emacs, and I would >>> > > > > love >>> > > > > to get >>> > > > > lilypond working with it as well... However, the >>> > > > > installation >>> > > > > instructions in the documentation left me a bit >>> > > > > baffled. It >>> > > > > *seems* I should be able to just require the lilypond >>> > > > > files, as >>> > > > > they are nicely tucked away in >>> > > > > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp. However, this doesn't do >>> > > > > much >>> > > > > for >>> > > > > me... Could someone hold my hand a little bit to get >>> > > > > this >>> > > > > set >>> > > > > up? >>> > > > > I'm on Arch Linux, using emacs 29.4. >>> > > >>> > > On Debian/GNU Linux, it works "out of the box", perhaps due >>> > > to: >>> > > >>> > > $ ls -l /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lilypond-data.el >>> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185 Nov 17 2014 >>> > > /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lilypond-data.el >>> > > >>> > > HTH, >>> > > Gilles >>> > >>> > -- >>> > -- A man must either resolve to point out nothing new or to >>> > become a slave to defend it. -- Sir Isaac Newton >>> >>>
