Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:43:08 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> Cc: questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: printing from emacs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980114202928.5408A-100000@barnowl.roost.net> In-Reply-To: <87hg77f9u9.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>
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Thanks for the comeback! I'm using emacs 19.34b from the ports (2.2.1R). Yep, lpr from a shell works like a champ. It uses print-buffer as the command and guess what? It passes the buffer through pr! Which I don't use 'cause my old printer does not like it and I don't either. Thanks, again, for the input. I know what to do now! John On 14 Jan 1998, stephen farrell wrote: > John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> writes: > > > I give up! > > > > It seems so simple, or should be. I can print with the spooler (lpr) > > just fine from the shell, within emacs from dired operations menu, > > postscript print the buffer, but *not* just "print buffer". > > > > That is the simple lpr buffer from the tools menu. I can set lpr > > switches , etc. but nothing happens when I print the buffer. > > I mean nothing. > > > > Any ideas where to look? > > What version of emacs (or xemacs) are you using? Can you print any > file from the shell with lpr, or only postscript ones? Under xemacs, > the "print buffer" calls lpr-buffer (which I assume is similar to > print-buffer, but might be slightly different)--what function does > yours call? (you should be able to do C-h k and then pull down the > menu to get the function name, unless that's an xemacsism and you're > using fsf emacs...) > > Why do you want to do that anyway? > -- > > Steve Farrell > > >
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