From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:09:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <48898444887291.48872914889844@net.lu.se> <43BD891C.5080403@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136538657 28901 80.91.229.2 (6 Jan 2006 09:10:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:10:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 06 10:10:55 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuncX-000362-Ga for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:10:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuneJ-0008Tm-7R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:12:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EundM-0008Db-Ik for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:11:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EundK-0008Bw-5O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:11:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EundJ-0008Bh-Rs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:11:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Eunf2-000122-Bs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:13:24 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-160-206.inter.net.il [84.228.160.206]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DHY21319 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:09:42 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <43BD891C.5080403@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:01:16 +0100) 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:32483 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:01:16 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman > CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >>Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:24:35 +0100 > >>From: LENNART BORGMAN > >>Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > >> > >>(default-printer-name) returns \\host-name\1234567890 > >> > >>where host-name is the name where the printer queue is. > >> > >> > > > >And using this in Emacs as the value of `printer-name' (after escaping > >the backslashes) fails to produce the printed matter, is that right? > > > Ehum, I did not test because it looks so very strange. I will try it > next week. Do you really expect something like that to work? I mean it > is exactly those figures I wrote above. Do you mean that you already tried to use \\host-name\1234567890, the value returned by (default-printer-name), as the value of `printer-name', and it failed? If so, then of course trying again the same thing would be unnecessary.