printing remotely using ssh from within emacs

printing remotely using ssh from within emacs

[Joe Corneli]

I would have thought that adding these lines

 '(lpr-command "cat - | ssh jcorneli@fakehost.edu lpr")
 '(printer-name "fakeprinter")

to my custom set variables might enable me to print emacs buffers on
my remote printer using ps-print-buffer. But I seem to have guessed
wrong. Does anyone know the correct way to set this up?

Re: printing remotely using ssh from within emacs

[Kevin Rodgers]

Joe Corneli wrote:
 > I would have thought that adding these lines
 >
 >  '(lpr-command "cat - | ssh jcorneli@fakehost.edu lpr")
 >  '(printer-name "fakeprinter")
 >
 > to my custom set variables might enable me to print emacs buffers on
 > my remote printer using ps-print-buffer. But I seem to have guessed
 > wrong. Does anyone know the correct way to set this up?

Contrary to its name, but explained in its doc string, lpr-command is
not a shell command but an executable program (run by
call-process-region).  So your best bet is to put that pipe line into a
shell script, and point lpr-command to the script.

And setting printer-name just causes (concat lpr-printer-switch
printer-name) to be appended to the arguments passed to lpr-command, so
you should just include that in the script.

Finally "cat - | ssh ..." is equivalent to "ssh ...".

-- 
Kevin Rodgers