Re: How to compile Lilypond files using Emacs?

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi Parviz,

Just a quick note - I'll send a full reply later. As a long time user of 
Emacs, I would really love to use emacs for lilypond. The issue is that 
the lilypond mode is quite broken in many ways and as your scores get 
longer and more complex you will see this. I don't recall the exact 
details - you can search the list archives - but it makes it pretty much 
unusable, at least for me. The summary appears to be that no maintenance 
has been done on the emacs code for years, and it's not looking like 
being fixed.

Although heresy for an emacs user to say this, I was forced to move to 
gvim. It works great, handles large files, and I use ly-format from 
Frescobaldi for formatting, and the vim map function provides single 
function key compile and reformat, anything you want. Also, some time 
ago I wrote and posted a not on how to integrate gvim with point and 
click on Ubuntu, which I can send if so desired.

You can get the compile function going on emacs. If you are still keen, 
I will write more when I have a bit of time. But with all due respect to 
the original developers, I think it is a sub-optimal solution. if I am 
out of date and the mode has been updated, I'd be very keen to be proved 
wroing and start using emacs again. I know there were some suggested 
fixes at one point, but they still did not work for me.

Andrew


On 27/07/2020 12:54 am, Parviz Farnia wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to ask a question about using Lilypond with Emacs. 
> According to the online documentation it is possible to use Lilypond 
> with Emacs: