Re: Using .ily for included lilypond files

[Jonathan Kulp]

Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
> Just wondering.
>
> Is the fact, that a change like this breaks existing editor support for 
> LilyPond, considered at all?
Well, the original suggestion was that users should name their own 
included files with a .ily extension, which can't possibly break 
anything (except syntax coloring, which should be easily fixed), but the 
proposals Graham is making about changing internal stuff are a different 
matter.  There wouldn't be any changes to the stable release, but this 
is an important consideration for the future and I can see how it might 
make a lot of work for you with Lilypond Tool.  Would this have any 
effect on the emacs mode as well?  I don't use emacs but I know that 
emacs mode has some advanced interaction with lilypond.  I use vim, but 
if there are any auto-completion tools or macros in vim mode then I'm 
not aware of them. I only use the syntax coloring, and the patch I 
submitted to devel list adds the *.ily extension to the 
lilypond-ftdetect.vim file so that coloring will be applied to those 
files.

Jon

> Graham Percival wrote:
> > In the large "DOC: Makefile" thread that nobody new is going to
> > read, there was a proposal to use .ily to indicate "setup"
> > lilypond files.
> >
> > I quite like this suggestion, so I'm asking somebody to take the
> > next step: integrate this with lilypond.
> >
> > - change (almost) everything in ly/ to .ily.
> > - update the internal "loading included files" stuff.
> > - update the docs (i.e. \include "gregorian.ly" should now
> >   just be "gregorian.ily")
> > - make a convert-ly rule.  Any of the built-in files (i.e.
> >   accordian.ly) should be changed automatically.  Since we
> >   still support including .ly, we don't need to print out
> >   a warning for other files.
> > - add a NEWS item.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham
> >
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