Ralph,
If you haven't already tried it, have a look at this short, sweet
walkthrough for setting up lilypond-mode for emacs:
http://www.geoffhorton.com/lilymacs.html
I did this under Windows XP and (with some figuring and a little luck)
got it working on both my XP machines. I assume that under Ubuntu, the
only thing different would be the file paths that would need to be
corrected (I trust if I'm wildly off-base, one of the command-line
ninjas on this list will enlighten us ;-) ).
When I installed Emacs 22 (GTK flavor) from the Ubuntu repos on my Hardy
installation, I literally had only to save a file with the .ly extension
(or open one previously saved that way) in order to call up
lilypond-mode. Emacs knew where to find the lilypond-mode file in my
LilyPond directory.
Let me know if you run into difficulty and I'll try to dig deeper and
see how my system is set up.
Good Luck,
Dave
Ralph Palmer wrote:
When I try either M-x lilypond-mode or M-x lilypond, emacs replies
that it can't find the mode.
Ralph
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:54 PM, David Stocker
<dstoc...@thenotesetter.com <mailto:dstoc...@thenotesetter.com>> wrote:
Forgot to mention, the Emacs I installed from the repos was the
GTK flavor of Emacs 22. Not sure whether it makes a difference.
As far as Emacs vs. gEdit or something else, Emacs is a little
more 'programmerish', with keystrokes that take some getting used
to (c-x c-s instead of ctr-s for save, etc.), but it's nicer on
the eyes than gEdit and the liypond-mode syntax highlighting and
auto indentation is nice to have.
Dave
David Stocker wrote:
Hi Ralph,
The lilypond-mode worked 'out of the box' for me when after
opening a .ly file with emacs or saving whatever file I was
working on with a .ly extension. At least this was true on
Ubuntu 8.04 and Emacs 22 from the Ubuntu repositories. Did you
install Emacs from the repositories? If you do, I think it
sets all the correct paths by default.
Ralph Palmer wrote:
Hi -
I'm an intermediate lilyponder and a novice penguinista. I
have Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) mounted on an older
laptop. I successfully removed the LilyPond version that
came with the Ubuntu package, and installed 2.12 (although
I thought the documentation would come with the
installation package, and it doesn't seem to be anywhere
on the machine). Prior to this, I'd been working on an XP
machine and using ConText to edit my .ly files; I liked
it, but it's not available for Linux (yet). I've had some
experience with Emacs, and I'd like to use it for
LilyPond. I know there's a lilypond-mode for Emacs, but I
can't figure out how to locate, configure, download, or
use it. Is there a more experienced user out there who
might be able to walk me through it, or at least steer me
in the right direction? Or should I cop out and use gEdit?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Ralph
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