From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows port: using Windows' default printer Date: 13 Sep 2003 23:13:24 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: 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> <86vfrwqvj7.fsf@slowfox.dyndns.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063491610 19162 80.91.224.253 (13 Sep 2003 22:20:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 14 00:20:08 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 19yIkS-0005wY-00 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 00:20:08 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19yImN-0000Ur-00 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 00:22:07 +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 19yIiX-0007cm-2a for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19yIhC-00078s-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:16:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19yIhA-000781-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:16:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 19yIh5-0006rL-4d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:16:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.36] (helo=server0027.freedom2surf.net) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19yIe4-00032m-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:13:33 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonr.f2s.com ([195.137.103.251]) by server0027.freedom2surf.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-7) with ESMTP id h8DMDRit016085; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:13:27 GMT Original-Received: from NYAUMO (nyaumo.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.27]) by wanchan.jasonr.f2s.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7734FDDF2B; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:12:39 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Kai Grossjohann In-Reply-To: <86vfrwqvj7.fsf@slowfox.dyndns.org> Original-Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:16383 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16383 Kai Grossjohann writes: > But if printer-name changes behind the user's back, how could the user > choose another printer? > > How about making a special value for printer-name that means to use > the default Windows printer? And we're back where we started. That "special value" was nil, which is consistant with when lpr is used to print.