Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> writes: > Nicolas Sceaux wrote: >> Having a useful lilypond mode in Emacs would be really great. > > Using the existing lilypond-mode for all my .ly file editing already > and it's pretty useful to me- but of course there is always room for > improvement. What are you thinking that you'd like to see? > > I'd like to see parsing for missing/misplaced brackets, maybe some > kind of validation function like Tidy is for HTML, since that is > something that trips me up sometimes and can be hard to debug.
Indentation goes downhill completely sometimes (in particular when using things like -> accents) and is hopeless regarding Scheme. Syntax highlighting can be rather weird. There is no automatic conversion between absolute and relative modes, or editor-level transpositions or augmentation. Syntax can't distinguish between chord mode, lyrics, markups and so on. You can't start a new Lilypond compilation before killing your viewer. You can't, say, quickly play the notes of a passage without running them through Lilypond (since Emacs does not understand the notes it sees). Bar detection barfs on encountering the first bar. You can't let bars be entered automagically. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
