Re: emacs question

[Hans Aberg]

On 10 Sep 2008, at 10:56, James E. Bailey wrote:

> > > > > > I have
> > > > > > exec /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ 
> > > > > > lilypond "$@"

> > I am not sure exactly what you run in Emacs,
> lilypond-mode. In the command menu, there's an option lilypond (C-c  
> C-l). If it's set to do the command on the master File (C-c C-c) it  
> fails because the path is not escaped.

Then it might be the lilypond-mode script that is missing some quotes  
like those above.

> > but when compiling, it creates a subshell and runs the compilation  
> > process in it.
> I think that's the compile option in the file menu. There, I can do  
> "lilypond path\ to/my\ file.ly" and it's fine.

  lilypond 'foo bar'
might work, woo.

> > Then, if someone forgot putting in the quotes above when composing  
> > the full path, one would get the error you reported. Setting IFS  
> > empty (might suffice only IFS=) might be a workaround - some  
> > suggests using this in scripts rather than quotes, but it is not  
> > well known.
> Regardless, I tried adding that to my .bashrc and it had no effect.

Are you running it from the Terminal - then, under 10.4 at least, it  
should be put into the file .profile (login shell). X11 does not  
create a login shell, so then it is .bashrc; so I put
  source ~/.profile
in it.

Then, in .profile, don't forget "export":
  export IFS=

But setting it this way globally may screw up other scripts. So it  
would be best fixing the lilypond-mode script.

  Hans