From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Default printer Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:08:07 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128964531 1481 80.91.229.2 (10 Oct 2005 17:15:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:15:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 10 19:15:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EP1Cj-0006sz-Jp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:12:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EP1Ci-0002iS-QJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EP1CL-0002ey-LI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EP1CK-0002ed-3j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EP1CK-0002ea-0m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EP1CJ-0001nT-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EP1AT-0005r9-Jk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:10:30 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:10:29 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:10:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30106 Archived-At: Bruce_Ingalls wrote: > I recently posted code on gnu.emacs.sources, on how to determine the > default printer on modern Microsoft Windows systems. > This code could certainly be improved, to, say, list *all* known printers, > for M-x customize to select from. I'm sure one of our inclined readers > could do this far more efficiently, than could I. > > Any thoughts, on good strategies for determining default printers, or > lists of known printers, on (GNU) Linux compatible systems, (e.g. Solaris, > BSD), or on OSX, VMS, etc? 10 years ago I wrote printers.el, which used the LPDEST environment variable (or PRINTER) and the lpstat command (or the /etc/printcap file) to provide a primitive customization facility for System V (or BSD) Unix (M-x set-system-printer-default, M-x read-printer): http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.sources/msg/5f609871cca03963 > Should we leave /dev/lp0 as a good guess? > How about scanning /etc/printcap? > I suspect Red Hat leaves something in /etc/sysconfig/ > What about CUPS & IPP? /dev/lp*: No such file or directory http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CupsInEmacs -- Kevin Rodgers