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: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:40:34 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F643792.4080307@runestig.com> References: <3E54D5AA.4000805@runestig.com> <3E55CCC0.5050408@runestig.com> <7263-Sat13Sep2003120454+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <9743-Sat13Sep2003163932+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F63739E.5010600@runestig.com> <3405-Sun14Sep2003014437+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063532537 27621 80.91.224.253 (14 Sep 2003 09:42:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:42:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 14 11:42:16 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19yTOa-00040L-00 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:42:16 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19yTQh-0007pR-00 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:44:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19yTOO-0008Jd-HP for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 05:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19yTOD-00084V-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 05:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19yTO5-0007mu-LC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 05:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.108.199.166] (helo=arthur.runestig.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 19yTO4-0007ib-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 05:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from runestig.com (h20n2fls34o823.telia.com [217.208.10.20]) by arthur.runestig.com (8.12.9/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h8E9feVO001011 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:41:41 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030809 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <3405-Sun14Sep2003014437+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16388 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16388 On 2003-09-14 01:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:44:30 +0200 >> From: "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" >> >> On 2003-09-13 16:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> [...] >> > But in case there's no way, how about calling the function to update >> > `printer-name' only on startup--would that be good enough? >> >> I think it's vital to follow any change to the Windows default printer >> during the emacs session, it would be quite annoying otherwise. > > If it's quite annoying, we would be hearing from Windows users by now. > > I still think we could simply tell the user change the value whenever > she changes the default printer. But that's me. Since printing from Emacs currently is very different from printing from any other Windows application, maybe they don't complain about the details. I for one never printed anything from Emacs before implementing this, since I move between offices (and home) with my laptop, thus having to keep track of different printers' device names, and it was too much work for lazy me. But if we implement a way to use the Windows default printer (i.e. the "normal" Windows way), but then only implement it half-way (by not following any change to the default printer), then maybe more people than me would find it annoying. -- 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 Yahoo! Messenger profile name: altberg