From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: peter@runestig.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows port: using Windows' default printer
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:39:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9743-Sat13Sep2003163932+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uhe3h6kns.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (message from Jason Rumney on 13 Sep 2003 11:35:19 +0100)
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Date: 13 Sep 2003 11:35:19 +0100
> >
> > If Windows sends some kind of message when the default printer
> > changes, perhaps you could arrange for NTEmacs to listen to that
> > message and update `printer-name' automatically when it comes.
>
> I think that is something like the original approach Peter took, but
> the problem I saw with that is that you cannot distinguish between
> printer-name that has been set to the default printer at startup, and
> printer-name that has been customized by the user. So changing it
> automatically later would potentially be a mistake.
You are probably right, although I think there's some way to make this
distinction (I vaguely recall that some code pulls such a trick).
But in case there's no way, how about calling the function to update
`printer-name' only on startup--would that be good enough?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-13 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-20 13:18 Windows port: using Windows' default printer Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-02-20 23:05 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-21 6:52 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-02-21 8:20 ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-12 19:34 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-09-13 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-13 10:35 ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-13 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-09-13 19:44 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-09-13 20:32 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-09-13 22:13 ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-13 23:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-14 9:40 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-09-15 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-21 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-21 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-22 6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-23 16:28 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-09-24 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-24 19:22 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-25 13:26 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-10-22 10:35 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-10-22 11:15 ` Jason Rumney
2003-10-22 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-26 11:55 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
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