Re: LilyDev not accepting paste from host clipboard

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 15:46 +0100, James wrote:
> >         lily-git.tcl"
> > 
> > 
> > as there is no lily-git.tcl in the path at this stage. 
> > Putting $LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/auxillar in the path fixed this
> > but then I got this error:
> > 
> > lily-git.tcl
> > Error in startup script: grab failed: window not viewable
> >     while executing
> > "grab .b"
> >     (procedure "requestuserdata" line 3)
> >     invoked from within
> > "requestuserdata"
> >     invoked from within
> > "if {![regexp "name" $usercheck] || ![regexp "email" $usercheck]}
> then {
> >     requestuserdata
> >     tkwait window .b
> > }"
> >     (file "/home/rshann/lilypond-git/scripts/auxiliar/lily-git.tcl"
> line
> > 90)
> > 
> > I'm not at all sure about that one...
> 
> All I can say is that I didn't get that when I tested this with
> Federico.
> 
> When you run Lily-Git for the first time it should prompt for your
> email
> and user name (this then applies this to $LILYPOND_GIT/.gitconfig (I
> think - but it's as if you were in $LILYPOND_GIT and run the git
> commands
> 
> git config --global user.name "John Smith"
> git config --global user.email address@hidden
> 
> )
> 
> This assumes (I assume!) that you are running this in $LILYPOND_GIT. 

Ah, that is the bit that is missing. After setting the PATH you need

cd $LILYPOND_GIT && lily-git.tcl

and you do indeed get the needed window popping up.
I have now pushed on as far as editing the sources and trying to build
lilypond for the first time - so far so good!

Richard