Re: emacs question

[Hans Aberg]

On 10 Sep 2008, at 00:18, James E. Bailey wrote:

> > > > I have
> > > > exec /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond  
> > > > "$@"


> > You can try running a command like
> >  export IFS='';lilypond 'foo bar'
> > Setting the IFS variable empty prevents variable name spaces being  
> > expanded.
> >
> > Otherwise, it may be an emacs bug - so check the emacs lists.
> I'm a little confused. This looks like a bash solution, but emacs  
> has no problems with bash. As far I can see, the problem is with  
> lilypond-mode. The filename that lilypond-mode calls cannot have  
> spaces. The emacs people I've asked all say it's a problem with  
> lilypond-mode (actually, they say that the elisp in lilypond-mode  
> is horrible, and ask me if I wrote it).

I am not sure exactly what you run in Emacs, but when compiling, it  
creates a subshell and runs the compilation process in it.

Then, if someone forgot putting in the quotes above when composing  
the full path, one would get the error you reported. Setting IFS  
empty (might suffice only IFS=) might be a workaround - some suggests  
using this in scripts rather than quotes, but it is not well known.

  Hans