;;; lpr.el --- print Emacs buffer on line printer. ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1988, 1992, 1994 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 your printer. Entry points ;; are `lpr-buffer', `print-buffer', lpr-region', or `print-region'; option ;; variables include `lpr-switches' and `lpr-command'. ;;; Code: ;;;###autoload (defvar lpr-switches nil "*List of strings to pass as extra options for the printer program. See `lpr-command'.") (defvar lpr-add-switches (eq system-type 'berkeley-unix) "*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.") ;;;###autoload (defvar lpr-command (if (memq system-type '(usg-unix-v dgux hpux irix)) "lp" "lpr") "*Name of program for printing a file.") ;; 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. (defvar 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.") (defvar print-region-function nil "Function to call to print the region on a printer. See definition of `print-region-1' for calling conventions.") (defvar lpr-page-header-program "pr" "*Name of program for adding page headers to a file.") (defvar 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.") ;;;###autoload (defun lpr-buffer () "Print buffer contents as with Unix command `lpr'. `lpr-switches' is a list of extra switches (strings) to pass to lpr." (interactive) (print-region-1 (point-min) (point-max) lpr-switches nil)) ;;;###autoload (defun print-buffer () "Print buffer contents as with Unix command `lpr -p'. `lpr-switches' is a list of extra switches (strings) to pass to lpr." (interactive) (print-region-1 (point-min) (point-max) lpr-switches t)) ;;;###autoload (defun lpr-region (start end) "Print region contents as with Unix command `lpr'. `lpr-switches' is a list of extra switches (strings) to pass to lpr." (interactive "r") (print-region-1 start end lpr-switches nil)) ;;;###autoload (defun print-region (start end) "Print region contents as with Unix command `lpr -p'. `lpr-switches' is a list of extra switches (strings) to pass to lpr." (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")) ;; On MS-DOS systems, make pipes use binary mode if the ;; original file is binary. (binary-process-input buffer-file-type) (binary-process-output buffer-file-type) (width tab-width) switch-string) (save-excursion (if page-headers (if lpr-headers-switches ;; It is 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 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)) (setq 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))) (setq start (car new-coords) end (cdr new-coords))) (apply 'call-process-region start end lpr-page-header-program t t nil (nconc (and lpr-add-switches (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) (nconc (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)) switches))) (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) "Turn nonprinting characters (other than TAB, LF, SPC, RET, and FF) in the current buffer into printable representations as control or hexadecimal escapes." (interactive "r") (save-excursion (goto-char begin) (let (c) (while (re-search-forward "[\^@-\^h\^k\^n-\^_\177-\377]" end t) (setq c (preceding-char)) (delete-backward-char 1) (insert (if (< c ?\ ) (format "\\^%c" (+ c ?@)) (format "\\%02x" c))))))) (provide 'lpr) ;;; lpr.el ends here