Re: emacs lilypond-mode and the midi command

[James E. Bailey]

On 07.03.2009, at 17:20, Tim McNamara wrote:

> On Mar 7, 2009, at 4:05 AM, James E. Bailey wrote:
>
> > On OSX, the lilypond mode for emacs doesn't properly escape  
> > filenames.
> > open -a 'Mighty MIDI' /Users/jamesebailey/Documents/James Music/ 
> > Choral Music/Windhauch/Windhauch.midi
> > 2009-03-07 10:59:31.767 open[465] No such file: /Users/ 
> > jamesebailey/Documents/James
>
> I'm having trouble making sense of what you are trying to do with  
> this command and from where you are trying to do it.
Sorry, I'm trying to use the midi command in lilypond mode from  
within emacs. Since I'm on a macintosh, I change the timidity -ia and  
timidity in the lilypond.mode.el file to be open -a 'Mighty MIDI'. It  
works for opening the pdfs from within emacs. I use the emacs  
shortcut to view the pdf and it opens. I've changed the default xpdf  
to open -a 'Skim' and everything works perfectly.
> That open command looks incorrectly stated for Emacs on two  
> fronts.  Are you typing this command in somewhere (Emacs or the  
> shell) or is this command being generated inside Emacs from one of  
> the lilypond-mode menus?
As previously stated, I'm typing this in the lilypond-mode.el file.
> First, Emacs doesn't use an "open" command to open files, it uses  
> the sequence Control-x Control-f (C-x C-f [and note the case]).  If  
> lilypond-mode is generating that command, it seems guaranteed to fail.
it works for the pdfs
> Second, you're trying to open a MIDI file (.midi) rather than a  
> LilyPond file (.ly); I don't know if opening anything but a .ly  
> file will automatically enter lilypond-mode in Emacs (assuming you  
> have set up the correct Lisp code in your .emacs file first to  
> require lilypond-mode when a .ly file is opened).
lilypond mode works just fine. it's opening the midi file from within  
emacs that's the problem.
>