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Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:52:15 +0200 |
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vinicius Jose Latorre" <address@hidden>
> > >> 2) Some windows specific printing entries to the menus since
printing
> > >> otherwise tends to be a problem when you start with Emacs on ms
> windows. I
> > >> also remove the unix-related printing entries from the menus
> because they do
> > >> not work or do not work as you expect them to. Of course I make
> this as
> > >> customization options.
>
> What kind of problems?
>
> The printing entries in the menu are not unix-related, it should work
> also on Windows.
I am sorry, but I do not understand. We must be misunderstanding each other
here. If I just install a vanilla Emacs on ms windows and try "File - Print
Buffer" on the menus I get something like this:
Loading lpr...done
Spooling with options (page headers are not supported)...
direct-print-region-helper: IO error writing c:/PRN: Bad file descriptor
I get similar results if I use "File - PostScript Print Buffer". I guess
this is the reason there are so many advices on printing in the "GNU Emacs
FAQ For Windows 95/98/ME/NT/XP and 2000"
(http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/big.html#printing-emacs).
MS Windows users expect things to work right out of the box. I struggled
with the advices above but still had big difficulties. I am not quite sure
about this, but as I remember it it still did not work when I finally found
out the network UNC adress (\\server\printer) of the printer I wanted to
use. (I am curious, I will try it again, since so many people seem to insist
it does work if you use the UNC adress and I do not remember exactly now.
Maybe it was some part of it that did not work.)
But at that point I just gave it up, realizing most people just do not want
to make that work.
> Have you read the ps-print.el documentation?
I did look at it and I am sure that it does a lot of things that can be
useful for me if it just used the default printer.
- Lennart
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Benjamin Riefenstahl, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Vinicius Jose Latorre, 2004/08/26
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows,
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Benjamin Riefenstahl, 2004/08/26
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/08/26
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/23
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Dhruva Krishnamurthy, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Benjamin Riefenstahl, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/08/25