Re: Vim and Lilypond setup

On Monday, September 30, 2013 7:40:25 PM UTC+2, ke...@toughlife.org wrote:
> I have written the following block of text to Fedora forums and received
> a partial answer. Following the curly bracketed text block is a further
> question perhaps best answered by the talented folks here.
>
> {{
>
> I am just starting a school for children to learn English and guitar at
> the same time here in Germany. I've spent many hours trying to evaluate
> my options with the commercial software "GuitarPro" in comparison to
> using Tuxguitar and Lilypond. Tuxguitar appears to be "dead in the
> water" and does not correctly output input files for Lilypond.
>
> In searching for the reason why vim7.4 does not highlight Lilypond
> source files in Fedora 19 I have run into some confusion. The Lilypond
> website:
>
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Do...editor-support
>
> suggests an entry into .vimrc such as:
>
>
> filetype off
> set runtimepath+=/usr/local/share/lilypond/current/vim/
> filetype on
>
> A bug report says that perhaps the above code should have the line
> "syntax on" following to be correct.
>
> With the Fedora Software Manager I have installed "Lilypond 2.16.2". In
> the installed directory /usr/share/lilypond there is no such vim
> directory present??? I am suspecting, without much knowledge, that they
> wish to provide their own vim scripts because they change their syntax
> often. Could it be??? If so where is the directory?
>
> Otherwise, my now old .../vim/vim73/syntax directory has only the three
> files left in it; lilypond.vim, lilypond-words, and lilypond-words.vim.
> I suspect the software manager may not have installed the files to the
> correct directory, vim74, as I have only recently installed Lilypond. I
> have copied the files to the vim74/syntax directory but the highlighting
> appears to be very limited without change. Comments and quotes are
> highlighted but not much more! In the lilypond.vim file a maintainer is
> mentioned: Heikki Junes but the Email address is no longer used
> "hjunes@cc.hut.fi".
>
> I would greatly appreciate advice on how to configure vim for Lilypond
> in Fedora 19.
>
> }}

See this other mailing list thread for a similar query:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/3H9B5acDuzU/tZyupkDsyDcJ

Vim itself doesn't seem to have any support for lilypond, if the command

grep -Ri lilypond runtime

on Mercurial tip can be trusted. You will have to look elsewhere. But
I'm sure somebody here has a better answer.

Best,

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