Re: emacs question

[James E. Bailey]

On 10.09.2008, at 11:34, Hans Aberg wrote:

> On 10 Sep 2008, at 10:56, James E. Bailey wrote:
>
> > > > > > > I have
> > > > > > > exec /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ 
> > > > > > > lilypond "$@"
>
> > > I am not sure exactly what you run in Emacs,
> > lilypond-mode. In the command menu, there's an option lilypond (C-c  
> > C-l). If it's set to do the command on the master File (C-c C-c) it  
> > fails because the path is not escaped.
>
> Then it might be the lilypond-mode script that is missing some  
> quotes like those above.
That's what I suspect.

> > > 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.
> > Regardless, I tried adding that to my .bashrc and it had no effect.
>
> Are you running it from the Terminal - then, under 10.4 at least, it  
> should be put into the file .profile (login shell). X11 does not  
> create a login shell, so then it is .bashrc; so I put
>  source ~/.profile
> in it.
Well, I have my ~/.bash_profile source my ~/.bashrc so the settings  
get there regardless.
> But setting it this way globally may screw up other scripts. So it  
> would be best fixing the lilypond-mode script.
If I only knew where to begin…
>  Hans

James