From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: specifying printer to gnus Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:41:54 -0700 Message-ID: <87zi07snwd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87efhj67bc.fsf@nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528314249 25944 195.159.176.226 (6 Jun 2018 19:44:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 19:44:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 06 21:44:05 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fQeLk-0006fg-Hy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 21:44:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54343 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQeNr-00034D-Mg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQeMh-0002gw-MA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQeMd-0003cv-QW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34105 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQeMd-0003ax-I8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fQeKU-0005AG-BA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 21:42:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:nxziD7vMhfHuHjujv5e8jSGRO2A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116996 Archived-At: allan gottlieb writes: > I have two printers on my system. > ss is a color deskjet connected via the lan > lj is a b/w laserjet directly connected via usb > > I want to print on lj by default. > I set the PRINTER env variable to lj in .bash_profile > > When I execute gnus-summary-pipe-output (via | in Summary) > the article (mail message) is printed on lj > > When I execute gnus-mime-pipe-part (via | in Article) > the attachment is printed on lj When you pipe the article or part, the command you give it there honors the $PRINTER variable. > However, when I execute ajg-gnus-summary-print-article-maybe-bw > (via AP in Summary) the article is printed on ss. I don't think anything in ps-*.el honors the $PRINTER variable. Maybe set `ps-printer-name' or `printer-name'? These are guesses, unfortunately... Eric