Re: emacs on Ubuntu

[David Stocker]

Hi Ralph,

To my novice eyes, it seems there is one of two possible issues here:

  1. The path indicated in your "init.el" file, which is supposed to
     point to the lilypond-mode files in your LilyPond installation
     folder is incorrect, or
  2. "init.el" points to the place where the lilypond-files are
     supposed to be, but the files are missing.

How did you install LilyPond? Did you do it through Add/Remove or 
Synaptic, or by downloading the executable from the LilyPond site?

Ralph Palmer wrote:
> Hi, I've been here before, but I've still got a problem.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope), Lilypond 2.12.2, and emacs 22.2.1.
>
> Whenever I try to open a .ly file in emacs, I get :
> File mode specification error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" 
> "lilypond-mode")
>
> Has anyone else had this problem and/or found a fix? I tried some 
> instructions I got a while back from someone on the lilypond user 
> list, and they didn't work. I re-installed emacs, and no joy. I then 
> tried following the instructions again, and still no luck. Any 
> suggestions?
>
> Or is there another helpful text editor (with highlighting), other 
> than jedit (with seems to be slow and resource intensive, in my 
> experience)?
>
> Thanks for your time and attention,
>
> Ralph
>
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