Re: emacs lilypond-mode

[Arjan Bos]

On 26 mrt 2005, at 14:31, address@hidden wrote:

> Hi to everybody!
>
> I'm writing now a short tutorial about how to use emacs and vim to 
> edit lilypond
> files in mac os x.
> Two questions:
>
> 1) When I open a lilypond file with emacs, I obtain the following 
> error:
>
> Loading lilypond-mode (source)...
> 0 occurrences [3 times]
> Loading lilypond-font-lock (source)...done
> Loading lilypond-indent (source)...done
> Loading lilypond-what-beat (source)...done
> Loading lilypond-mode (source)...done
> Error in post-command-hook: (wrong-type-argument integerp nil)
>
> What does it means? Is it important or not?

It means that emacs expected something to be an integer (it checked the 
integer proposition with a function called integerp. This is a boolean 
function, returning nil or t). It found `nil' instead of an integer. 
This was encountered in `post-command-hook'. There is some comment in 
lilypond-mode.el to the effect that there is something very XEmacs 
specfic about it.
Unfortunately, I don't have the knowledge to debug it and even more 
unfortunately, I don't have the time to acquire that knowledge.

I have that message as well, but I always disregard it, since 
everything seems to work just fine.

> 2) I'm trying to get autoindentation in emacs, but without any result, 
> which
> is the command to start it? What I can do to have it automatically 
> each time
> I open a lily file?

Is lilypond-mode active when you open a .ly file in emacs? For me 
auto-indentation is always on, just not when pressing return. The 
`normal' way of giving a newline in emacs is C-j. This will do auto 
indenting.
To indent a line press either [tab] or C-i.
To indent a whole buffer, press C-x h (select whole buffer) and then 
C-M-\ (indent-region)

HTH,

Arjan Bos
Lilypond 2.4.2
Mac OS X 10.3.8

TiBook G4 667 GE  / G4 DP 1.42



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