Re: Tips and Tricks on making Vim a good environment for Lilypond?

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote:

> I think that is because my lilypond installation
> automatically puts the correct files in /usr/share/vim/ and so
> lilypond syntax highlighting works immediately for me upon a new
> OS installation.  But then, I use Fedora.  What OS do
> you work under?

Hi,

I also use Fedora and vim.
I did a small modification of the file 
/usr/share/vim/vim81/ftplugin/lilypond.vim

-" <F6>  view pdf with ghostview
-map <buffer> <F6> :!gv --watch "%<.pdf" &<Return>
+" <F6>  view pdf with evince
+map <buffer> <F6> :!evince "%<.pdf" &<Return>

Evince is the standard PDF viewer for Gnome in Fedora and a more obvious 
choice than gv (ghostview). Maybe I should report/request that to the 
Fedora packagers?

Also since I personally prefer to use *.mid instead of *.midi as default 
file extension for midifiles and I like to use Timidity with a GUI I did the 
following modification:

 " <F4>  save & make and play midi with timidity
-map <buffer> <F4> :w<Return>:setl makeprg=lilypond\ \"%<\"<Return>:make<Return>:!timidity 
"%<.midi"<Return>
+map <buffer> <F4> :w<Return>:setl makeprg=lilypond\ -dmidi-extension=mid\ 
\"%<\"<Return>:make<Return>:!timidity -ig "%<.mid"<Return>
 "
 " <F5>  save & make
-map <buffer> <F5> :w<Return>:setl makeprg=lilypond\ \"%<\"<Return>:make<Return>
+map <buffer> <F5> :w<Return>:setl makeprg=lilypond\ -dmidi-extension=mid\ 
\"%<\"<Return>:make<Return>


These are lines that configure what happens if you hit the function keys 
F4, F5, F6 when using Vim to edit lilypond files.
The same plugin files also work when using gvim, the GUI version of vim.

At some point I even managed to make Point&Click work (sort of) for the 
combination Evince + Gvim. If I drag the Evince and Gvim to the left and 
right borders of the screen a nice split screen is organized that almost 
can compete with Frescobaldi. And for an experience Vim user this even 
works better than Frescobaldi.

(Don't misunderstand me: Frescobaldi is fantastic, but this thread is 
about Vim)

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MT