From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows port: using Windows' default printer Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:52:48 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E55CCC0.5050408@runestig.com> References: <3E54D5AA.4000805@runestig.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045810465 6289 80.91.224.249 (21 Feb 2003 06:54:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18m74i-0001dI-00 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:54:24 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18m7IZ-0001eJ-00 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:08:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18m749-0003UA-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 01:53:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18m73p-0003Fi-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 01:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18m73Z-0002ue-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 01:53:15 -0500 Original-Received: from arthur.runestig.com ([62.108.199.166]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18m73P-00022p-00; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 01:53:03 -0500 Original-Received: from runestig.com (fw.kldata.cc [62.108.199.163]) by arthur.runestig.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h1L6qrHR009854; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:52:53 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030207 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11806 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11806 On 2003-02-21 00:05, Jason Rumney wrote: > I wonder whether it is really necessary to add two new user variables > to get this functionality. We already have `printer-name', perhaps > setting it to nil should select the system's default printer, as it > does on other systems. In general we want to avoid introducing new > variables, especially OS specific ones. OK. Sure, I don't know much about how you prefer things. I did it like this because I wanted to leave as much as possible untouched. So, you want it like, if `printer-name' is nil on startup, `printer-name' should follow the device name of Windows default printer? -- Peter 'Luna' Runestig (fd. Altberg), Sweden PGP Key ID: 0xD07BBE13 Fingerprint: 7B5C 1F48 2997 C061 DE4B 42EA CB99 A35C D07B BE13 AOL Instant Messenger Screen name: PRunestig