Re: emacs lilypond-mode installation

[Hwaen Ch'uqi]

Many greetings,
     Actually, I, an ubuntu user, had the same problems when
installing LilyPond from the shell script. The emacs subdirectory
which you found in the LilyPond directory contains a folder called, I
believe, "lisp" The files in this folder are what you especially need.
The load-path is the set of directories which emacs initially searches
in order to know which packages to immediately call. You can find
these list of directories by calling `C-h v' and typing load-path.
Choose one, and move the files to that directory. (You may need to do
this as root.) Then, add the following lines to your .emacs file:

(autoload 'LilyPond-mode "lilypond-mode")
(setq auto-mode-alist
      (cons '("\\.ly$" . LilyPond-mode) auto-mode-alist))

(add-hook 'LilyPond-mode-hook (lambda () (turn-on-font-lock)))

     This code will also ensure that LilyPond-mode will be called
whenever emacs visits a file with a .ly extension. I hope this helps.
Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 5/28/13, Kevin Barry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear LilyPond users,
>
> A friend recently persuaded me to try emacs for text editing (LaTeX +
> LilyPond), however I can't quite understand the instructions for
> installing lilypond-mode, as outlined here:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/usage/text-editor-support
>
> 'An Emacs mode for entering music and running LilyPond is contained in
> the source archive in the ‘elisp’ directory. Do make install to install
> it to elispdir.'
>
> What exactly is the source archive?  The download seems to be a shell
> script.  Does it mean the lilypond folder in /usr/local/?  I did find a
> folder called elisp (actually there seem to be several on my computer
> since guile 2.0 comes with Ubuntu) in
> /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/guile/1.8/lang/elisp/ but doing a make
> install only gave an error ('make: *** No rule to make target `install'.
>   Stop.'). Should I be looking somewhere else?  There is an emacs folder
> in /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/emacs/ which seems to contain some of
> the files mentioned in the instructions in the documentation, but I
> don't understand them: there's no folder anywhere on my computer called
> elispdir, and I don't know what a load-path is.  Do I just need to add a
> line to the ~/.emacs file pointing to this folder?
>
> K.
>
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