lilypond-mode.el

[Reuben Thomas]

I'm using what I think is the current version (shipped with LilyPond
2.1.25) and I'm having a few problems:

1. Much of my file keeps being coloured like a string. This happens when I
have a construction such as

words = \lyrics { ... }

and then later

\lyricsto "voice" \new Lyrics \words

After this, notes are coloured as a string up to the next close brace "}".
If I replace \words with { foo }, the syntax colouring works as expected.

2. I think there's a problem with the way the menu is built, because when
I customize LilyPond-gv-command to "ggv", it still tries to run gv when I
do C-c C-p (LilyPond-command-viewps). lilypond-mode.el seems to build the
menu at load time, so the updated values (even from customisations??) are
not taken into account.

3. I may have reported this before, but for completeness: lilypond
currently (2.1.25) produces DVI, PS and PDF unless you give it the
arguments --no-pdf --no-ps. I don't know if this is a bug in lilypond, a
bug in lilypond-mode.el, or just something that has changed. It means that
the command to produce DVI needs to be changed in order only to produce
DVI.

4. There is no command to produce/view PDF.

5. The mode seems slow in operation. I have a 700MHz machine with 320Mb of
memory, and most Emacs modes work at a reasonable speed. I get slow
operation when I run Emacs (21.3.1) without my settings, i.e. emacs -q, so
I think it's something intrinsic to LilyPond-mode. It doesn't speed up if
I turn off font-lock-mode. If you are interested, I'm happy to work with
you to see what is causing this problem (I think that any major mode
should work reasonably fast on a machine like mine with a short file (~
200 lines), or is this an unreasonable expectation?

Finally, thanks very much for this mode, which makes working with LilyPond
much easier than it would be otherwise.

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