Re: Printing questions concerning lpr-switches and printer-name

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 22.05.2013 um 23:11 schrieb Marius Hofert:

> An 'ido' completion of available printers would also be
> great. Theoretically that should be possible, but I rather have to learn
> elisp first...

With f1…fn you select one of the n printers you have (maybe there exists a 
clear relation between the printer's type number and the n of the function 
key). So you bind a simple variable setting function (for printer-name) to a 
key press event.

With one modifier key down, for example Control, while you press one of the 
function keys now two things happen: you set printer n active and you also 
select particular lpr-switches – if needed.

With two modifier keys down, for example Control + Shift, while you press one 
of the function keys now three things happen: you set printer n active and you 
also select particular lpr-switches for it and you choose an lpr-command with 
enscript, a2ps, or whatever.

This should not be too complicated. With printing set-up that way you can 
simply print a file (or more?) from dired with P.

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  Pete

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