Re: LilyPond 2.12 and emacs on Ubuntu

[David Stocker]

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
> >
> > --
> > Ralph Palmer
> > Montague City, MA
> > USA
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