;;; lpr.el --- print Emacs buffer on line printer ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1988, 1992, 1994, 2001, 2003 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Maintainer: FSF ;; Keywords: unix ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs 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 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs 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 GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;; Commands to send the region or a buffer to your printer. Entry points ;; are `lpr-buffer', `print-buffer', `lpr-region', or `print-region'; option ;; variables include `printer-name', `lpr-switches' and `lpr-command'. ;;; Code: ;;;###autoload (defvar lpr-windows-system (memq system-type '(emx win32 w32 mswindows ms-dos windows-nt))) ;;;###autoload (defvar lpr-lp-system (memq system-type '(usg-unix-v dgux hpux irix))) (defgroup lpr nil "Print Emacs buffer on line printer." :group 'wp) ;;;###autoload (defcustom printer-name (and lpr-windows-system "PRN") "*The name of a local printer to which data is sent for printing. \(Note that PostScript files are sent to `ps-printer-name', which see.\) On Unix-like systems, a string value should be a name understood by lpr's -P option; otherwise the value should be nil. On MS-DOS and MS-Windows systems, a string value is taken as the name of a printer device or port, provided `lpr-command' is set to \"\". Typical non-default settings would be \"LPT1\" to \"LPT3\" for parallel printers, or \"COM1\" to \"COM4\" or \"AUX\" for serial printers, or \"//hostname/printer\" for a shared network printer. You can also set it to the name of a file, in which case the output gets appended to that file. If you want to discard the printed output, set this to \"NUL\"." :type '(choice :menu-tag "Printer Name" :tag "Printer Name" (const :tag "Default" nil) ;; could use string but then we lose completion for files. (file :tag "Name")) :group 'lpr) ;;;###autoload (defcustom lpr-switches nil "*List of strings to pass as extra options for the printer program. It is recommended to set `printer-name' instead of including an explicit switch on this list. See `lpr-command'." :type '(repeat (string :tag "Argument")) :group 'lpr) (defcustom lpr-add-switches (memq system-type '(berkeley-unix gnu/linux)) "*Non-nil means construct `-T' and `-J' options for the printer program. These are made assuming that the program is `lpr'; if you are using some other incompatible printer program, this variable should be nil." :type 'boolean :group 'lpr) (defcustom lpr-printer-switch (if lpr-lp-system "-d " "-P") "*Printer switch, that is, something like \"-P\", \"-d \", \"/D:\", etc. This switch is used in conjunction with `printer-name'." :type '(choice :menu-tag "Printer Name Switch" :tag "Printer Name Switch" (const :tag "None" nil) (string :tag "Printer Switch")) :group 'lpr) ;;;###autoload (defcustom lpr-command (cond (lpr-windows-system "") (lpr-lp-system "lp") (t "lpr")) "*Name of program for printing a file. On MS-DOS and MS-Windows systems, if the value is an empty string then Emacs will write directly to the printer port named by `printer-name'. The programs `print' and `nprint' (the standard print programs on Windows NT and Novell Netware respectively) are handled specially, using `printer-name' as the destination for output; any other program is treated like `lpr' except that an explicit filename is given as the last argument." :type 'string :group 'lpr) ;; Default is nil, because that enables us to use pr -f ;; which is more reliable than pr with no args, which is what lpr -p does. (defcustom lpr-headers-switches nil "*List of strings of options to request page headings in the printer program. If nil, we run `lpr-page-header-program' to make page headings and print the result." :type '(repeat (string :tag "Argument")) :group 'lpr) (defcustom print-region-function nil "Function to call to print the region on a printer. See definition of `print-region-1' for calling conventions." :type '(choice (const nil) function) :group 'lpr) (defcustom lpr-page-header-program "pr" "*Name of program for adding page headers to a file." :type 'string :group 'lpr) ;; Berkeley systems support -F, and GNU pr supports both -f and -F, ;; So it looks like -F is a better default. (defcustom lpr-page-header-switches '("-F") "*List of strings to use as options for the page-header-generating program. The variable `lpr-page-header-program' specifies the program to use." :type '(repeat string) :group 'lpr) ;;;###autoload (defun lpr-buffer () "Print buffer contents without pagination or page headers. See the variables `lpr-switches' and `lpr-command' for customization of the printer command." (interactive) (print-region-1 (point-min) (point-max) lpr-switches nil)) ;;;###autoload (defun print-buffer () "Paginate and print buffer contents. The variable `lpr-headers-switches' controls how to paginate. If it is nil (the default), we run the `pr' program (or whatever program `lpr-page-header-program' specifies) to paginate. `lpr-page-header-switches' specifies the switches for that program. Otherwise, the switches in `lpr-headers-switches' are used in the print command itself; we expect them to request pagination. See the variables `lpr-switches' and `lpr-command' for further customization of the printer command." (interactive) (print-region-1 (point-min) (point-max) lpr-switches t)) ;;;###autoload (defun lpr-region (start end) "Print region contents without pagination or page headers. See the variables `lpr-switches' and `lpr-command' for customization of the printer command." (interactive "r") (print-region-1 start end lpr-switches nil)) ;;;###autoload (defun print-region (start end) "Paginate and print the region contents. The variable `lpr-headers-switches' controls how to paginate. If it is nil (the default), we run the `pr' program (or whatever program `lpr-page-header-program' specifies) to paginate. `lpr-page-header-switches' specifies the switches for that program. Otherwise, the switches in `lpr-headers-switches' are used in the print command itself; we expect them to request pagination. See the variables `lpr-switches' and `lpr-command' for further customization of the printer command." (interactive "r") (print-region-1 start end lpr-switches t)) (defun print-region-1 (start end switches page-headers) ;; On some MIPS system, having a space in the job name ;; crashes the printer demon. But using dashes looks ugly ;; and it seems to annoying to do for that MIPS system. (let ((name (concat (buffer-name) " Emacs buffer")) (title (concat (buffer-name) " Emacs buffer")) ;; Make pipes use the same coding system as ;; writing the buffer to a file would. (coding-system-for-write (or coding-system-for-write buffer-file-coding-system)) (coding-system-for-read (or coding-system-for-read buffer-file-coding-system)) (width tab-width) nswitches switch-string) (save-excursion (and page-headers lpr-headers-switches ;; It's possible to use an lpr option to get page headers. (setq switches (append (if (stringp lpr-headers-switches) (list lpr-headers-switches) lpr-headers-switches) switches))) (setq nswitches (lpr-flatten-list (mapcar 'lpr-eval-switch ; Dynamic evaluation switches)) switch-string (if switches (concat " with options " (mapconcat 'identity switches " ")) "")) (message "Spooling%s..." switch-string) (if (/= tab-width 8) (let ((new-coords (print-region-new-buffer start end))) (setq start (car new-coords) end (cdr new-coords) tab-width width) (save-excursion (goto-char end) (setq end (point-marker))) (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))) (if page-headers (if lpr-headers-switches ;; We handled this above by modifying SWITCHES. nil ;; Run a separate program to get page headers. (let ((new-coords (print-region-new-buffer start end))) (apply 'call-process-region (car new-coords) (cdr new-coords) lpr-page-header-program t t nil (nconc (list "-h" title) lpr-page-header-switches))) (setq start (point-min) end (point-max)))) (apply (or print-region-function 'call-process-region) (nconc (list start end lpr-command nil nil nil) (and lpr-add-switches (list "-J" name)) ;; These belong in pr if we are using that. (and lpr-add-switches lpr-headers-switches (list "-T" title)) (and (stringp printer-name) (list (concat lpr-printer-switch printer-name))) nswitches)) (if (markerp end) (set-marker end nil)) (message "Spooling%s...done" switch-string)))) ;; This function copies the text between start and end ;; into a new buffer, makes that buffer current. ;; It returns the new range to print from the new current buffer ;; as (START . END). (defun print-region-new-buffer (ostart oend) (if (string= (buffer-name) " *spool temp*") (cons ostart oend) (let ((oldbuf (current-buffer))) (set-buffer (get-buffer-create " *spool temp*")) (widen) (erase-buffer) (insert-buffer-substring oldbuf ostart oend) (cons (point-min) (point-max))))) (defun printify-region (begin end) "Replace nonprinting characters in region with printable representations. The printable representations use ^ (for ASCII control characters) or hex. The characters tab, linefeed, space, return and formfeed are not affected." (interactive "r") (save-excursion (save-restriction (narrow-to-region begin end) (goto-char (point-min)) (let (c) (while (re-search-forward "[\^@-\^h\^k\^n-\^_\177-\377]" nil t) (setq c (preceding-char)) (delete-backward-char 1) (insert (if (< c ?\s) (format "\\^%c" (+ c ?@)) (format "\\%02x" c)))))))) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Functions hacked from `ps-print' package. ;; Dynamic evaluation (defun lpr-eval-switch (arg) (cond ((stringp arg) arg) ((functionp arg) (apply arg nil)) ((symbolp arg) (symbol-value arg)) ((consp arg) (apply (car arg) (cdr arg))) (t nil))) ;; `lpr-flatten-list' is defined here (copied from "message.el" and ;; enhanced to handle dotted pairs as well) until we can get some ;; sensible autoloads, or `flatten-list' gets put somewhere decent. ;; (lpr-flatten-list '((a . b) c (d . e) (f g h) i . j)) ;; => (a b c d e f g h i j) (defun lpr-flatten-list (&rest list) (lpr-flatten-list-1 list)) (defun lpr-flatten-list-1 (list) (cond ((null list) (list)) ((consp list) (append (lpr-flatten-list-1 (car list)) (lpr-flatten-list-1 (cdr list)))) (t (list list)))) (provide 'lpr) ;;; arch-tag: 21c3f821-ebec-4ca9-ac67-a81e4b75c62a ;;; lpr.el ends here