From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ChristopherL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How To Print To Printer GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-03-26 on RELEASE Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <60c812e9-5761-4c2a-bcb1-042034fe5a9a@x1g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: <43393e17-505b-4959-9553-f0ce8c22fe29@i28g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239046870 4854 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2009 19:41:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:41:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 06 21:42:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lquhs-0007r7-Ks for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:42:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LqugU-0002LO-E1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:40:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!x1g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.76.32.181 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1239045602 27934 127.0.0.1 (6 Apr 2009 19:20:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x1g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=130.76.32.181; posting-account=r24XpwkAAABfAJg5TJRsTScS4AL5MjOT User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168240 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:63520 Archived-At: On Apr 6, 10:51=A0am, ChristopherL wrote: > On Apr 6, 10:05=A0am, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > > Am 06.04.2009 um 18:06 schrieb ChristopherL: > > > > How do I setup Emacs to be able to print to a printer. > > > By reading the documentation. (And setting an environment variable =A0 > > PRINTER.) > > > GNU Emacs can either create a text output or a PostScript output (you = =A0 > > can check this output by using ps-spool-* instead of the ps-print-* =A0 > > commands, later you can use ps-despool-* to print). Both are fed to =A0 > > the user's default printer. > > I am really new to setting variables and controlling the setup and > it's vague to me. Can you post a detailed step-by-step description of > how to print. > > Again thanks, > Chris M-x customize-variable printer-name Did not work when I set the "name" and "saved it for future settings" Chris