From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
To: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Printing mail
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:57:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjz8yq5a.fsf@ut.hh.sledj.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yunhbfpy66e.fsf@aiko.keithp.com>
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On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:43:53 -0800, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:32:01 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de> wrote:
>
> > which gives me nice menu entries for previewing my printouts (defaults
> > to 'gv' but can easily be set to use 'evince') and which provides the
> > M-x pr-ps-buffer-preview command to invoke the print preview directly
> > (unfortunately it still asks about the n-up scaling of pages).
>
> Oh, but that doesn't print a message, it prints a buffer which may contain
> other stuff, and may have some elided lines.
Which is swings and roundabouts, especially if the message in question
has multiple parts - muttprint produces mostly horrid output for
something with both text/plain and text/html parts.
How about something like the attached?
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From 2fefbe83fd5d0abed4aa063f5d0d2a7b59873bd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:33:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] emacs: Improved printing support.
---
emacs/Makefile.local | 3 +-
emacs/notmuch-print.el | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
emacs/notmuch-show.el | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 emacs/notmuch-print.el
diff --git a/emacs/Makefile.local b/emacs/Makefile.local
index c5280f1..df87427 100644
--- a/emacs/Makefile.local
+++ b/emacs/Makefile.local
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ emacs_sources := \
$(dir)/notmuch-maildir-fcc.el \
$(dir)/notmuch-message.el \
$(dir)/coolj.el \
- $(dir)/notmuch-lkml.el
+ $(dir)/notmuch-lkml.el \
+ $(dir)/notmuch-print.el
emacs_images := \
$(dir)/notmuch-logo.png
diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-print.el b/emacs/notmuch-print.el
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ad4b45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-print.el
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+;; notmuch-print.el --- printing messages from notmuch.
+;;
+;; Copyright © David Edmondson
+;;
+;; This file is part of Notmuch.
+;;
+;; Notmuch is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+;; (at your option) any later version.
+;;
+;; Notmuch is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+;; General Public License for more details.
+;;
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with Notmuch. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+;;
+;; Authors: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
+
+(defcustom notmuch-print-mechanism 'lpr
+ "How should printing be done?"
+ :group 'notmuch
+ :type '(choice
+ (const :tag "Use lpr" lpr)
+ (const :tag "Use ps-print" ps-print)
+ (const :tag "Use muttprint" muttprint)
+ (function :tag "Using a custom function")))
+
+(defvar notmuch-print-mechanism-map
+ '((lpr . notmuch-print-lpr)
+ (ps-print . notmuch-print-ps-print)
+ (muttprint . notmuch-print-muttprint)))
+
+(defmacro notmuch-print-with-file (filename &rest body)
+ `(with-temp-buffer
+ (insert-file-contents ,filename)
+ (setq buffer-modified-p nil)
+ ,@body))
+
+(defun notmuch-print-lpr (filename)
+ (notmuch-print-with-file filename
+ (lpr-buffer)))
+
+(defun notmuch-print-ps-print (filename)
+ (notmuch-print-with-file filename
+ (ps-print-buffer)))
+
+(defun notmuch-print-muttprint (filename)
+ (shell-command
+ (concat "cat " (shell-quote-argument filename) " | muttprint")))
+
+(defun notmuch-print-message (filename)
+ (let ((fn
+ (cond
+ ((functionp 'notmuch-print-mechanism)
+ 'notmuch-print-mechanism)
+ ((assoc notmuch-print-mechanism notmuch-print-mechanism-map)
+ (cdr (assoc notmuch-print-mechanism notmuch-print-mechanism-map)))
+ (t
+ (error "No printing mechanism found")))))
+ (funcall fn filename)))
+
+;;
+
+(provide 'notmuch-print)
diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-show.el b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
index 5efdf84..3680faf 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-show.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
(require 'notmuch-query)
(require 'notmuch-wash)
(require 'notmuch-mua)
+(require 'notmuch-print)
(declare-function notmuch-call-notmuch-process "notmuch" (&rest args))
(declare-function notmuch-fontify-headers "notmuch" nil)
@@ -174,6 +175,38 @@ Set `notmuch-show-address-simplication' to:
mm-handle (> (notmuch-count-attachments mm-handle) 1))))
(message "Done"))
+(defun notmuch-show-with-message-as-text (fn)
+ "Apply function `fn' to a text representation of the current
+message."
+ (let* ((from (notmuch-show-clean-address
+ (mail-header-parse-address (notmuch-show-get-from))))
+ (subject (notmuch-show-get-subject))
+ (date (notmuch-show-get-date))
+ (header (concat
+ "Tags: " (mapconcat '(lambda (tag) tag)
+ (notmuch-show-get-tags) ", ")
+ "\n"
+ "From: " from "\n"
+ "Date: " date "\n"))
+ (body (save-excursion
+ (goto-char (notmuch-show-message-top))
+ (forward-line)
+ (buffer-substring (point) (notmuch-show-message-bottom))))
+ (depth (notmuch-show-get-depth))
+ (file (make-temp-file "notmuch")))
+ (with-temp-file file
+ (insert body)
+ (indent-rigidly (point-min) (point-max) (- depth))
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (insert header))
+ (funcall fn file)
+ (delete-file file)))
+
+(defun notmuch-show-print-message ()
+ "Print the current message."
+ (interactive)
+ (notmuch-show-with-message-as-text 'notmuch-print-message))
+
(defun notmuch-show-fontify-header ()
(let ((face (cond
((looking-at "[Tt]o:")
@@ -520,6 +553,8 @@ current buffer, if possible."
(plist-put msg :message-invis-spec message-invis-spec)
(overlay-put (make-overlay body-start body-end) 'invisible message-invis-spec)
+ (plist-put msg :depth depth)
+
;; Save the properties for this message. Currently this saves the
;; entire message (augmented it with other stuff), which seems
;; like overkill. We might save a reduced subset (for example, not
@@ -821,6 +856,9 @@ All currently available key bindings:
(defun notmuch-show-get-to ()
(notmuch-show-get-header :To))
+(defun notmuch-show-get-depth ()
+ (notmuch-show-get-prop :depth))
+
(defun notmuch-show-set-tags (tags)
"Set the tags of the current message."
(notmuch-show-set-prop :tags tags)
--
1.7.2.3
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dme.
--
David Edmondson, http://dme.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-11 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-09 14:51 Printing mail Keith Packard
2010-11-09 16:16 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2010-11-09 18:00 ` Keith Packard
2010-11-10 7:32 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2010-11-10 7:43 ` Keith Packard
2010-11-11 12:57 ` David Edmondson [this message]
2010-11-11 14:12 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2010-11-12 12:53 ` [PATCH] emacs: Improved printing support David Edmondson
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