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: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:09:12 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <412C3B18.9030008@runestig.com> References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <1091508072.20683.201576204@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4111491A.4090601@runestig.com> <4111D8D4.1040506@runestig.com> <1091693906.8538.201741376@webmail.messagingengine.com> <001d01c47afa$c1f5f170$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <003e01c48946$a8ebfad0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <011201c48a06$469eb6e0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <016f01c48a10$f6081090$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <001801c48a37$995d27f0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c48a5a$Blat.v2.2.2$412bdd60@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093417813 30272 80.91.224.253 (25 Aug 2004 07:10:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 25 09:10:01 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bzruz-000458-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:10:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzrzW-0006Lk-Ln for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BzrzP-0006LU-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:14:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BzrzN-0006LG-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:14:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzrzN-0006L9-2L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:14:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.108.199.166] (helo=arthur.runestig.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BzruI-0006u0-Au; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.11.17.115] (fw.kldata.cc [62.108.199.163]) by arthur.runestig.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7P79C7m009116; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:09:12 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c48a5a$Blat.v2.2.2$412bdd60@zahav.net.il> X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.71, clamav-milter version 0.71 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26480 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26480 On 2004-08-25 06:15, Eli Zaretskii wrote: [...] > This is IMHO ridiculous: we should not use these tools to print, we > should instead add the code to Emacs to do whatever they do to find > the default printer. Ghostscript does that, and Ghostscript is free > software, so someone should be able to look in its code and find the > trick. We already have that, since 2004-01-28, when this patch was committed: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-09/msg00115.html If you put this in .emacs: (setq printer-name nil) a CVS build of Emacs on Windows prints to the 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 Yahoo! Messenger profile name: altberg