On May 28, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Kevin Barry wrote:
> Dear LilyPond users,
>
> A friend recently persuaded me to try emacs for text editing (LaTeX +
> LilyPond), however I can't quite understand the instructions for installing
> lilypond-mode, as outlined here:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/usage/text-editor-support
>
> 'An Emacs mode for entering music and running LilyPond is contained in the
> source archive in the ‘elisp’ directory. Do make install to install it to
> elispdir.'
>
> What exactly is the source archive? The download seems to be a shell script.
> Does it mean the lilypond folder in /usr/local/? I did find a folder called
> elisp (actually there seem to be several on my computer since guile 2.0 comes
> with Ubuntu) in /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/guile/1.8/lang/elisp/ but doing
> a make install only gave an error ('make: *** No rule to make target
> `install'. Stop.'). Should I be looking somewhere else? There is an emacs
> folder in /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/emacs/ which seems to contain some of
> the files mentioned in the instructions in the documentation, but I don't
> understand them: there's no folder anywhere on my computer called elispdir,
> and I don't know what a load-path is. Do I just need to add a line to the
> ~/.emacs file pointing to this folder?
I added the following to my .emacs file:
(autoload 'LilyPond-mode "lilypond-mode" "LilyPond Editing Mode" t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ly$" . LilyPond-mode))
(add-hook 'LilyPond-mode-hook (lambda () (turn-on-font-lock)))
I haven't used Emacs in a long time; you might also want to add:
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ily$" . LilyPond-mode))
It's been a very long time since I used Emacs for anything and I can't remember
what else I did to make LilyPond work with it. It didn't work for me today; I
vaguely recall moving some files into site-lisp inside the file hierarchy for
Emacs. And I remember it working fine; as I recall, messages from LilyPond
were sent to the scratch buffer.
Sorry to not be more helpful.
Tim
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