Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

[Tim McNamara]

Oh, dear.  Very sorry for what seemed no doubt like an entire school of red 
herring.  

There is an incantation to use for installing Frescobaldi via MacPorts (sudo 
port install lilypond) but not AFAIK Homebrew.  

Much, much easier is David L’s .dmg Frescobaldi package that has already been 
identified with URL.  Had my answer been more complete (i.e., had I thought to 
include the flamin’ URL for the Frescobaldi package) things would have been 
much, much simpler for you.  

IMHO Frescobaldi works better than Emacs and lilypond-mode, but some folks have 
Emacs keybindings coded into their fingers and prefer to stay with that.

In this case the incomplete answer was much worse than no answer at all.  I 
apologize, rif!





On May 10, 2014, at 8:01 AM, rif <address@hidden> wrote:

> FWIW, I spent multiple hours in install hell trying to get a homebrew install 
> of frescobaldi to work, with zero success.  AFAICT homebrew doesn't really 
> have forums or mailing lists?  I might stick with emacs for now.
> 
> rif
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:32 PM, rif <address@hidden> wrote:
> And just to be clear, when you see Frescobaldi is easy to install, it looks 
> to me like I have to first install Homebrew, then I have to manually install 
> XQuartz and and MacTeX [neither of which is packaged with Homebrew], and 
> *then* I can just do a "brew install frescobaldi"?
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:15 PM, rif <address@hidden> wrote:
> Cool.  Maybe it makes sense to update the documentation to indicate the elisp 
> files are in the precompiled tarball and just to point at them?  That "make 
> install" is a red herring.
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:15 PM, R. Mattes <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2014 13:44:31 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote
> > [...snip...]
> > (setq path
> >
> "/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/tim/bin:/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin")
> > (setenv "PATH" path)
> >
> > (setq load-path (append (list
> (expand-file-name"/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/site-lisp"))
> load-path))
> 
> Much easier to do:
> (add-to-list 'load-path
> (expand-file-name"/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/site-lisp"))
> 
> 
> Cheers, Ralf Mattes
> 
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