Re: Emacs lily mode

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim McNamara <address@hidden> writes:

    Tim> Nicolas Sceaux wrote:
    >> Having a useful lilypond mode in Emacs would be really great.

    Tim> Using the existing lilypond-mode for all my .ly file editing already
    Tim> and it's pretty useful to me-

Me, too.

    Tim> but of course there is always room for improvement.  What are
    Tim> you thinking that you'd like to see?

The existing misfeature that bothers me the most is that if you have
emacs debugging set the way I normally do, some of the way I normally
type lillypond lands me in a debug window. 

For instance, for my work, I usually have the default bar type set to
"empty", and then when I want the bar at the end of the piece, or
between sections in the middle, I'll
type something like:

        \bar "|."

but somewhere in that, I end up in the debug window and have to move
back to my lilypond typing window.

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