Re: renumbering numeric comments

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:

> Greetings! I'm very curious what more knowledgeable souls would do in
> the following situation. I'm writing music using emacs' lilypond
> mode. In Lilypond, measure numbers are usually (so far in my experience)
> entered as comments at the end of a line in the form `%m__':
>
>          \tempo 4=100
>          e4 d e8 f | %m1
>          \tempo 4=130
>          <c a>2. | %m2
>          <d e,>2 ~ <d e,>8 e | %m3
>          ...
>          
> These "%m_" numbers are very useful in debugging when the "code" is
> compiled. However, in the above case I later inserted two new measures:
>
>          \tempo 4=100
>          e4 d e8 f | %m1
>          \tempo 4=130
> ----->   g8 f e d e f |
> ----->   e d c b c d |
>          <c a>2. | %m2
>          <d e,>2 ~ <d e,>8 e | %m3
>          ...
>          
> Renumbering everything by hand is a lot of work, because the piece is
> many measures long. I have limited technical expertise, but would love
> ideas about better methods than "by hand!" Thank you!

Write yourself a numbering/renumbering command.

For an example, have a look at:

https://gitorious.org/nasium-lse/nasium-lse/source/028c064543abf8ad4043897d8b9029beab18db15:lse-mode.el#L321

In your case, it is even easier, because you don't have GOTOs.

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