Re: Emacs lilypond mode formatting and indenting

[David Kastrup]

Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> writes:

> Frescobaldi has a great formatting function that indents all the code very
> nicely and nearly flawlessly.
>
> But since an upgrade to Debian 9 and as the complexity of my current score
> increases, F. has slowed down to a molasses like rate and has sadly become
> unusable. [I have never seen that before until now.] Consequently I have
> returned to Emacs, as a long term Emacs user anyway. The PDF point and
> click with Emacs all works splendidly on Debian 9, and everything is
> lightning quick.
>
> The indenting in the current lilypond mode is to put it politely, less
> than optimal. My question is, can the lilypond-mode reformat and
> entire buffer like F. does?

You wouldn't want it to try.  Really, somebody™ should rewrite Emacs'
LilyPond support using some of the newer toolkits (like SMIE) and also
try keeping its key bindings and process control more akin to what
AUCTeX and similar modes do.  Oh, and of course letting LilyPond-book
texts cooperate with preview-latex would be great particularly for
editing LilyPond's Texinfo documentation.

-- 
David Kastrup