Re: Using Emacs as PS converter

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>]

Ciao Doug, thanks for clarification.

Ciao,
   Angelo.

Il 01/12/2014 18:16, Doug Lewan ha scritto:
> First, note the following in the documentation for ps-spool-buffer-with-faces:
>      This command works only if you are using
>      a window system, so it has a way to determine color values.
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> If you use --batch or run on a terminal, then there isn't a window system available as far as emacs can tell. Try "emacs --batch --eval='(message window-system)'" to see.
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> Next, emacs does a *lot* of things to start up, and the environment might not always be good for doing programming kinds of things on the command line.
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> For example, it's only in step 23 that a buffer is guaranteed to be selected, and that is /after/ it has handled the command line arguments (step 21). See the info for '(elisp) Startup Summary'.
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> To do anything sophisticated, you should probably really be doing it in lisp where you have real control. Even using --eval '(sample code)' on the command line would probably be more reliable. If you want to use emacs to support shell programming, then maybe starting it --daemon and using emacsclient is the way to go. (On the other hand, you would then affect your whole environment and that might complicate other things.)
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