Thanks for the very helpful reply Immanuel, you have confirmed my understanding of the (setq auto-mode ... ) statement - before I included that Emacs was not loading the *.I'll files, even with the full path and lilypond was sending error messages to that effect. Thanks the suggested fix, I'll give it a go.Laurie.Sent from my Galaxy -------- Original message --------From: Immanuel Litzroth <immanuel.litzr...@gmail.com> Date: 6/7/24 5:38 pm (GMT+10:00) To: Laurie Savage <savage.lau...@gmail.com> Cc: Ben Bradshaw <bleeding.fl...@gmail.com>, Kenneth Flak <kennethf...@protonmail.com>, Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com>, Lily Pond <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Emacs setup The '(setq auto-mode ... ' invocation does nothing except make emacs aware that any file ending in .ily is a lilypondfile and it needs to use lilypond mode for that fileIt will not put the any directory on the lilypond include path (see https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/including-lilypond-files about the include path).If you wanted to always use an include directory <full_path_to_directory> with .ily files you'd change the emacs variable "LilyPond-lilypond-command" to add the include flag to the lilypond command.(setq LilyPond-lilypond-command "lilypond -I <full_path_to_directory>")From then on you should be able to say \include "blah.ily" in your lilypond file, compile it with "C-c C-c" under emacs andit will find that blah.ily file in your <full_path_to_directory>.You could also change that include path for a directory or even a single file. Look up "file local variables" or "per-directory localvariables" in the emacs manualImmanuelOn Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 6:36 AM Laurie Savage <savage.lau...@gmail.com> wrote:Thanks Ben,I added this stanza to my emacs.init and it loaded my includes with their .ily extension, although I needed to specify their full path which is unnecessary in Frescobaldi once you've edited its preferences.(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.ily$" . LilyPond-mode) auto-mode-alist))LaurieOn Sat, 6 Jul 2024 at 12:09, Ben Bradshaw <bleeding.fl...@gmail.com> wrote: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?LaurieOn 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 -- -- A man must either resolve to point out nothing new or to become a slave to defend it. -- Sir Isaac Newton
