Re: LilyPond 2.12 and emacs on Ubuntu

[David Stocker]

Ralph,

If you haven't already tried it, have a look at this short, sweet 
walkthrough for setting up lilypond-mode for emacs:

http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilymacs.html

I did this under Windows XP and (with some figuring and a little luck) 
got it working on both my XP machines. I assume that under Ubuntu, the 
only thing different would be the file paths that would need to be 
corrected (I trust if I'm wildly off-base, one of the command-line 
ninjas on this list will enlighten us ;-) ).

When I installed Emacs 22 (GTK flavor) from the Ubuntu repos on my Hardy 
installation, I literally had only to save a file with the .ly extension 
(or open one previously saved that way) in order to call up 
lilypond-mode. Emacs knew where to find the lilypond-mode file in my 
LilyPond directory.

Let me know if you run into difficulty and I'll try to dig deeper and 
see how my system is set up.

Good Luck,

Dave

Ralph Palmer wrote:
> When I try either M-x lilypond-mode or M-x lilypond, emacs replies 
> that it can't find the mode.
>
> Ralph
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:54 PM, David Stocker 
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Forgot to mention, the Emacs I installed from the repos was the
>     GTK flavor of Emacs 22. Not sure whether it makes a difference.
>
>     As far as Emacs vs. gEdit or something else, Emacs is a little
>     more 'programmerish', with keystrokes that take some getting used
>     to (c-x c-s instead of ctr-s for save, etc.), but it's nicer on
>     the eyes than gEdit and the liypond-mode syntax highlighting and
>     auto indentation is nice to have.
>
>     Dave
>
>
>     David Stocker wrote:
>
>         Hi Ralph,
>
>         The lilypond-mode worked 'out of the box' for me when after
>         opening a .ly file with emacs or saving whatever file I was
>         working on with a .ly extension. At least this was true on
>         Ubuntu 8.04 and Emacs 22 from the Ubuntu repositories. Did you
>         install Emacs from the repositories? If you do, I think it
>         sets all the correct paths by default.
>
>         Ralph Palmer wrote:
>
>             Hi -
>
>             I'm an intermediate lilyponder and a novice penguinista. I
>             have Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) mounted on an older
>             laptop. I successfully removed the LilyPond version that
>             came with the Ubuntu package, and installed 2.12 (although
>             I thought the documentation would come with the
>             installation package, and it doesn't seem to be anywhere
>             on the machine). Prior to this, I'd been working on an XP
>             machine and using ConText to edit my .ly files; I liked
>             it, but it's not available for Linux (yet). I've had some
>             experience with Emacs, and I'd like to use it for
>             LilyPond. I know there's a lilypond-mode for Emacs, but I
>             can't figure out how to locate, configure, download, or
>             use it. Is there a more experienced user out there who
>             might be able to walk me through it, or at least steer me
>             in the right direction? Or should I cop out and use gEdit?
>
>             Thanks in advance for any help,
>
>             Ralph
>
>             -- 
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>             Montague City, MA
>             USA
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