Re: LilyPond 2.12 and emacs on Ubuntu

[David Stocker]

In the file /init.el/ paste in the following lines:

(setq load-path (append (list (expand-file-name "~/emacs/site-lisp")) 
load-path))

(autoload 'LilyPond-mode "lilypond-mode" "LilyPond Editing Mode" t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ly$" . LilyPond-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ily$" . LilyPond-mode))
(add-hook 'LilyPond-mode-hook (lambda () (turn-on-font-lock)))

And in the first line where it says /expand-file-name 
"~/emacs/site-lisp"/ paste in the full path to your /emacs/site-lisp 
folder in your LilyPond installation. It will be 
/home//user//lilypond/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp if you installed 
LilyPond in your home folder. Don't forget to change /user/ in the path.

Save the file and try opening a .ly file with emacs. If it works, the 
code will turn pretty colors and there will be a 'lilypond' menu at the 
top amongst the others.



Ralph Palmer wrote:
> Dave -
>
> Okay, in home/rpalmer/, I've got a .emacs.d. The only thing that 
> contains is auto-save-list (a directory), which is empty. I'll create 
> the init.el file in ~/.emacs.d.
>
> Ralph
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Ralph Palmer 
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Dave,
>
>     Does it make any/much/a significant difference that I'm running
>     8.10? I would think anything that worked under 8.04 should work
>     under 8.10.
>
>     Ralph
>
>
>     On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:23 AM, David Stocker
>     <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
>     wrote:
>
>         It shouldn't be this hard to set up lilypond-mode for emacs
>         under Ubuntu 8.04.
>
>         Ralph, check in your home folder and see if there is a folder
>         called .emacs.d and if there is a file in that folder named
>         init.el
>
>         It should be there. If not, create that file and folder. We're
>         going to get this working.
>
>         Dave
>
>         Valentin Villenave wrote:
>
>             2009/3/4 Ralph Palmer <address@hidden
>             <mailto:address@hidden>>:
>              
>
>                 I tried M-x lilypond-mode, and got an emacs error
>                 message that lilypond-mode
>                 couldn't be found.
>                    
>
>
>              
>
>                 Anyone have a suggestion?
>                    
>
>
>             Mmmh... jEdit?
>
>             OK, I'm out :)
>
>             Regards,
>             Valentin
>
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