Re: vim vagaries

[Graham Breed]

J. wrote:

> I looked at the directions on the lilypond site for
> setting it up but, because of my noviciate I got confused
> with all the places and symbols.

I found a page here:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Vim-mode

It isn't clear which of those things you have to do.  As I 
hadn't done any of this before, I gave it a try.  The answer 
is: both.  You need to create this filetype.vim in a 
suitable place so that vim knows to go looking for .ly 
files.  (And should that be modified for the extension we're 
supposed to be using for include files?)  You also need to 
tell vim about your Lilypond installation or move some files 
into a standard vim folder.

> i.e. can you add all the lilpond  things into the place
> where vim is (/user/bin/share/vim) or have to make a
> ~/.vim and how does one modify the files when the're
> found. [Whew!]

You can add the Lilypond things to your vim folders, but 
this might confuse you when you move computers or reinstall 
or something like that.  If you add things to ~/.vim you can 
move that to any new computer you want things to work on.

Note that these instructions are for UNIX but your headers 
show that you're using Windows.  Identifying those folders 
for a Windows installation of vim (outside of Cygwin) may 
well confuse you.  Inside vim, you can do

:set runtimepath

to find places where vim will look for things.


                    Graham