Hi, I have a question about developing Emacs input and major modes for Lilypond. What would be the right way to go forward for me?
I want to make use of current Emacs features (like semantic parsing and similar). I also want to create input methods for inputting on the keyboard in chromatic button keyboard layout, but also in parallel for inputting via midi (I already checked that make-serial-process can be used for opening and accessing a midi device on GNU/Linux). I don't think I'll be able to track on what Emacs versions (let alone XEmacs) the code will run. So the idea would be to provide it within Emacs (Emacs has quite a regular release schedule right now) and just there, and leave XEmacs users in the cold until someone decided to port the stuff over: I really don't have time and energy for staying with an Emacs 21.1 codebase (what XEmacs is mostly, except when it is completely different). That's been a total resource drain on other projects of mine, and I don't want to go there. Moving existing Lilypond mode stuff into Emacs upstream will require copyright assignments to the FSF. A fast hunch whether authors of the current Lilypond mode can be determined with sufficient precision (for legal accountability) and would be sympathetic to that, or whether I should rather have to start from scratch? Any suggestions, pointers, ideas? -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel