Re: an emacs question

[James Bailey]

On Dec 12, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Alexander Kobel wrote:

> On 2010-12-12 09:48, James Bailey wrote:
>> 
>> How can I pass an argument to the emacs compile command? Usually, when I 
>> compile something on the command line, I include a directory with tons of 
>> style sheets with the -I argument. Is it possible to add this to emacs, or 
>> can I only do it on the command line? Thanks in advance,
> 
> Hi, James,
> 
> C-h v LilyPond-command-alist gives me this:
> 
> Documentation:
> AList of commands to execute on the current document.
> 
> The key is the name of the command as it will be presented to the
> user, the value is a cons of the command string handed to the shell
> after being expanded, and the next command to be executed upon
> success.  The expansion is done using the information found in
> LilyPond-expand-list. [...]
> 
> Value:
> (("LilyPond" "Lilypond %s" "%s" "%l" "View")
> [...])
> 
> So I assume it should be enough to customize the "LilyPond" entry to
> ("LilyPond" "Lilypond <your-options> %s" "%s" "%l" "View")
> and go for it. (You can click on the customize text in the variable 
> documentation to yield the corresponding customization buffer.)
> Of course, this only applies to the C-c C-c compilation command of the 
> LilyPond-mode; if you use the default M-x compile, you're both free and 
> forced to give a shell command, and override the default as well.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Alexander
Thanks, it worked! I added it to my ~/.emacs!