Re: Post-22.1 development?

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn@gnu.org>]

On Jun 7, 2007, at 14:33, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Jan> - Printing, basically Emacs does not have a "modern" print  
> dialog.
>
> I thought the comment here was just about using the wrong program to
> access printing.  But, I'm not an expert here.

On my Mac I've found the most convenient way to print a file the way  
I wanted to from Emacs was to save it, use "M-! open foo.txt" to  
invoke the Mac TextEdit program, and use the standard Mac print  
dialog available there to select the options I wanted.  I'd like to  
see it available directly in Emacs too.  It allows not just for  
selection of which printer, but page layout/selection/ordering  
configuration options, color processing, saving as PDF files, feeding  
PDFs to other programs (at least some of which I think is customized  
by the user, across all programs using the print dialogs), and other  
options, and apparently (at least in when used in the Mail program)  
application-specific options as well.  All the printers I use are  
postscript, but I assume somewhere between the print dialog and the  
printing subsystem, it also deals with appropriate format conversions  
of text and images for the printer selected, whether it understands  
postscript or something else.

If "use Gnome print dialog" means "use the system print dialog, where  
under X we mean Gnome", then I'm all in favor of adding that as an  
option.  (Of course supporting plain lpr still has its place.)


> * Keyring support.  I have some code for this (supporting either the
>   Gnome keyring or a private Emacs-specific one), but I haven't wired
>   it in to all the code in Emacs that uses passwords.

The Mac also has its Keychain system for storing passwords,  
encrypting them, optionally keeping them synchronized across  
machines, prompting the user to confirm that a program is allowed to  
access passwords stored by other programs, etc.

Ken