Re: Proposal for feature contribution: Emacs live pdf preview

Sorry for the late reply.

> this is my first time contacting a FOSS project so please forgive me
> (and tell me) if i'm missing some protocol here. I've been using
> LilyPond for a few years now, absolutely love it and have recently
> started using it in Emacs instead of Frescobaldi. But one thing i'm
> still missing is the live compile-preview-update feature of
> frescobaldi: Whenever i save the changes to my *.ly file, the file
> is automatically compiled and the integrated pdf preview is updated.
> 
> I could not find this feature in the officially provided
> lilypond-mode for Emacs and thus, i implemented it on my own. Would
> you be interested in me creating a pull request to the official
> GitLab repo in order to integrate this as an optional feature
> (e.g. a minor mode; analogous to
> [latex-preview-pane](https://github.com/jsinglet/latex-preview-pane))?

The LilyPond mode, as currently distributed with LilyPond, is rather
unmaintained; AFAICS, the future is Saul Tobin's 'lilypond-ts-mode'

  https://github.com/shevvek/lilypond-ts-mode

which provides much better parsing for both LilyPond and Scheme code
in the same file, so please try this and make suggestions there.


    Werner