Re: How to develop Emacs mode?

[Carl Sorensen]

On 6/17/10 8:59 AM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about developing Emacs input and major modes for
> Lilypond.  What would be the right way to go forward for me?
> 
> I want to make use of current Emacs features (like semantic parsing and
> similar).  I also want to create input methods for inputting on the
> keyboard in chromatic button keyboard layout, but also in parallel for
> inputting via midi (I already checked that make-serial-process can be
> used for opening and accessing a midi device on GNU/Linux).

Are you familiar with lyqi?

<http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/lilypond/lyqi.html>

and rumor?

http://www.volny.cz/smilauer/rumor/rumor.html

> 
> I don't think I'll be able to track on what Emacs versions (let alone
> XEmacs) the code will run.  So the idea would be to provide it within
> Emacs (Emacs has quite a regular release schedule right now) and just
> there, and leave XEmacs users in the cold until someone decided to port
> the stuff over: I really don't have time and energy for staying with an
> Emacs 21.1 codebase (what XEmacs is mostly, except when it is completely
> different).  That's been a total resource drain on other projects of
> mine, and I don't want to go there.
> 
> Moving existing Lilypond mode stuff into Emacs upstream will require
> copyright assignments to the FSF.  A fast hunch whether authors of the
> current Lilypond mode can be determined with sufficient precision (for
> legal accountability) and would be sympathetic to that, or whether I
> should rather have to start from scratch?
> 
> Any suggestions, pointers, ideas?

I would guess that authors can be determined, and that they would be
sympathetic.

Thanks,

Carl