Re: emacs lilypond-mode and the midi command

[James E. Bailey]

On 08.03.2009, at 12:58, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:

> In message <address@hidden>,  
> James E. Bailey <address@hidden> writes
> > 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
>
> Are you *sure* it's exactly the same syntax?
>
> Note that your pathname is *un*quoted and *contains* *a* *space*.  
> This is GUARANTEED to fail if typed at the command line.
>
> Not knowing MacOS, I can't tell you what's the correct way to quote  
> it, but I'd try putting a backslash before the space.

The path quoted is not something I have control over, that is the  
output copied directly from emacs.

That is the problem: emacs does not correctly escape pathnames when  
upening a MIDI file.

I thought I made that clear, but everyone else here is discussing  
bash, and not how lilypond-mode opens a MID file.

Does anyone else have this problem? Can anyone else reproduce this  
issue (using the command midi C-c <return> or even Midi all C-c <C- 
return>) errors when opening a file with a space in the path?