Also differentiating lilypond code and scheme code. The mmm mode could be useful to combine this two major modes: http://mmm-mode.sourceforge.net/ Just an idea.
2010/7/15 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> > 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 >
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