From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miguel Frasson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: printscreen button should NOT print, or print after prompt Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:04:47 +0200 (CEST) Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040413150447.4C1F6807E@mira.math.leidenuniv.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081869947 29682 80.91.224.253 (13 Apr 2004 15:25:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 13 17:25:23 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BDPms-0004oq-00 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:25:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BDPi8-0001UT-9l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:20:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BDPdL-0007GD-IE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:15:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BDPYz-0005hy-33 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.229.231.52] (helo=spica.math.leidenuniv.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BDPTC-0004fe-S4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mira.math.leidenuniv.nl (mira.math.leidenuniv.nl [132.229.230.2]) by spica.math.leidenuniv.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B3D5BD30 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:04:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by mira.math.leidenuniv.nl (Postfix, from userid 685) id 4C1F6807E; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:04:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:7589 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:7589 This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2003-10-27 on daffy.perf.redhat.com configured using `configure --host=i386-redhat-linux --build=i386-redhat-linux --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop --with-sound' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: Hi. Most emacs users that I have talked about this problem aggree that hitting accidentally the print screen buttom prints the buffer WITHOUT prompting is really annoying. I have lost a lot of paper and pacience in this way, and so a lot of people for sure. If developers don't want just unbind the print buttom (the best solution), a simple yes-no confirmation would not harm a printing friendly user. Just a y-n confirmation is not enough, because printing is always expensive. There is the "Print Buffer" menu item for that. I have solved globally binding [print] to some message in my .emacs. Amazing how this unfortunate "feature" resisted so long... Thanks. Miguel. Recent input: Recent messages: Loading pc-select...done Loading delsel...done Loading /home/frasson/.emacs.d/lisp/x-symbol/auto-autoloads...done Loading /home/frasson/.emacs.d/lisp/x-symbol/custom-load...done Loading /home/frasson/.emacscustom.el (source)... Loading regexp-opt...done Loading /home/frasson/.emacscustom.el (source)...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading cl-seq...done Loading emacsbug...done