Fwd: emacs lilypond-mode and the midi command

[Tim McNamara]

> On Mar 7, 2009, at 4:05 AM, James E. Bailey wrote:
>
> > On OSX, the lilypond mode for emacs doesn't properly escape  
> > filenames.
> > open -a 'Mighty MIDI' /Users/jamesebailey/Documents/James Music/ 
> > Choral Music/Windhauch/Windhauch.midi
> > 2009-03-07 10:59:31.767 open[465] No such file: /Users/ 
> > jamesebailey/Documents/James
>
> I'm having trouble making sense of what you are trying to do with  
> this command and from where you are trying to do it.

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Addendum:  I was able to replicate this bheavior in Bash under  
Terminal.  The problem appears to be how Bash handles spaces in  
filenames.  Weird, in this day and age you'd think that shells would  
be intelligent enough to cope with this.  There is a new revision of  
Bash out in the past few weeks, which perhaps gets around this.  I  
wonder if lilypond-mode is for some reason calling to the shell and  
running into a problem there; IMO it shouldn't, it should use the  
standard Emacs commands.

If double quotes are put around the path, that seems to properly  
escape them, although even this was flakey on my Mac:

    "/Users/jamesebailey/Documents/James Music/Choral Music/ 
Windhauch/Windhauch.midi"

Another option might be:

     /Users/jamesebailey/Documents/"James Music"/"Choral Music"/ 
Windhauch/Windhauch.midi

Even then I am not sure that this will open in Emacs with this syntax.