From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:51:18 +0100 Message-ID: <43A3DF96.2040303@student.lu.se> References: <1134660719.186074.250590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <43A1B787.9040001@student.lu.se> <43A27ACF.1040705@student.lu.se> <43A2D4E8.7090306@student.lu.se> <43A37B01.6080603@student.lu.se> 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 1134814372 23196 80.91.229.2 (17 Dec 2005 10:12:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:12:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 11:12:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnZ3M-0006UU-22 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:12:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnZ44-0006Uq-8m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:13:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnYjf-0008Cz-O3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:52:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnYja-0008CP-96 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:52:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnYjY-0008Bw-6M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:52:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EnYm6-0006Op-HL; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:54:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43A2BDFC00038068; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:51:19 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii 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:32015 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >AFAIR, you brought this up on the developers' list some time ago. In >response, you were offered to write code to access the current default >printer on all supported systems, so that Emacs could use that >interface in a platform-independent fashion. IIRC, that was the last >I've heard about this idea, which IMHO is too bad. > > Which I have tried to make clear once again would be the wrong solution. Unfortunately much more is needed to use the Windows printing interface. Just as you I am happy to quit this discussion now. I want to say a last word to clarify my position on this: If anyone want to write the piece of code that is required for using the Windows printing interface from within Emacs that would very nice. That would be the right solution in my opinion. (As far as I know this will always bring up a box from the Windows printing interface asking for some options for printing. But I am not sure.) I do not know how much work this is. What I believe is that it should mimic the code in Emacs writing to the screen. There are surely code doing this kind of things in projects like Firefox, OpenOffice.org etc.