Thanks, David - worked beautifully! Saved me a lot of time and aggravation. I had tried searching the docs, but found only Linux instructions. I also tried searching the list archives and found only a thread I could not understand.
Ralph On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:14 PM, David Stocker <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Ralph, > > Browse to the folder "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application > Data\.emacs.d" or, if ".emacs.d" isn't already present, then create a new > directory with that name in "Application Data" Make sure you change "User" > in the path to whatever your actual user account's name is. > > In the ".emacs.d" directory, open (or create) a file called "init.el" > > In that file, paste the following lines: > > (setq load-path (append (list (expand-file-name "C:/Program > Files/LilyPond/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp")) load-path)) > > (autoload 'LilyPond-mode "lilypond-mode" "LilyPond Editing Mode" t) > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ly$" . LilyPond-mode)) > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ily$" . LilyPond-mode)) > (add-hook 'LilyPond-mode-hook (lambda () (turn-on-font-lock))) > > Make sure that in the section starting "(expand-file-name "C:/..." points > to the "site-lisp" folder in you LilyPond installation. Save the file and > try opening a *.ly file in Emacs. > > BTW, I'm not a programmer and I have no experience with lisp. I adapted > this from some instructions I found online (possibly the "Usage" section of > the LilyPond docs) and extrapolated from what I knew about the .emacs.d file > in my UbuntuStudio installation, which came with LilyPond pre-installed and > had Emacs working with lilypond-mode out of the box. > > I hope this works for you. > > David > > > On 06/09/2010 03:49 PM, Ralph Palmer wrote: > > Greetings - > > I've been forced (temporarily, I hope) onto a WinXP Pro laptop. I've > successfully downloaded LilyPond 2.12.3.1 and Emacs 22.3. I cannot figure > out how to get Emacs to recognize (much less accept as default for .ly > files) lilypond-mode. If anyone out there has successfully gotten Emacs to > work with lilypond-mode on WinXP and can explain the process to me, I would > be grateful. > > I appreciate your time and attention, > > Ralph > > -- > Ralph Palmer > Montague City, MA > USA > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing > [email protected]http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > -- > David Stocker > 804-598-3762http://notesettersinc.com > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- Ralph Palmer Montague City, MA USA [email protected]
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