Re: emacs question

[Hans Aberg]

On 9 Sep 2008, at 16:19, James E. Bailey wrote:

> > What do you get in your lilypond scrip filet? - Try
> >  less $(which lilypond)
> > I have
> >  exec /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond "$@"

> Forgot to mention I'm on 10.5 and have lilypond installed in ~/bin.  
> Emacs successfully calls lilypond, but the filename that emacs  
> sends to process is not escaped, so if there is a space in the  
> path, the command fails.

You can try running a command like
  export IFS='';lilypond 'foo bar'
Setting the IFS variable empty prevents variable name spaces being  
expanded.

Otherwise, it may be an emacs bug - so check the emacs lists.

  Hans