;;; lpr.el --- print Emacs buffer on line printer -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1988, 1992, 1994, 2001-2023 Free Software ;; Foundation, Inc. ;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org ;; 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 3 of the License, 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. If not, see . ;;; 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 '(ms-dos windows-nt)) "Non-nil if running on MS-DOS or MS Windows.") ;;;###autoload (defvar lpr-lp-system (memq system-type '(usg-unix-v hpux)) "Non-nil if running on a system type that uses the \"lp\" command.") (defgroup lpr nil "Print Emacs buffer on line printer." :group 'text) ;;;###autoload (defcustom printer-name (and (eq system-type 'ms-dos) "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"))) ;;;###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"))) (defcustom lpr-add-switches (not (not (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) (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"))) ;;;###autoload (defcustom lpr-command (purecopy (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) ;; 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 '(choice (const nil) (string :tag "Single argument") (repeat :tag "Multiple arguments" (string :tag "Argument")))) (defcustom print-region-function (if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt)) (progn (declare-function w32-direct-print-region-function "dos-w32") #'w32-direct-print-region-function) #'call-process-region) "Function to call to print the region on a printer. See definition of `print-region-1' for calling conventions." :type 'function) (defcustom lpr-page-header-program "pr" "Name of program for adding page headers to a file." :type 'string) ;; 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 '("-h" "%s" "-F") "List of strings to use as options for the page-header-generating program. If `%s' appears in any of the strings, it is substituted by the page title. Note that for correct quoting, `%s' should normally be a separate element. The variable `lpr-page-header-program' specifies the program to use." :type '(repeat string)) ;;;###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 (unless (y-or-n-p "Send current buffer to default printer? ") (error "Canceled"))) (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 (unless (y-or-n-p "Send current buffer to default printer? ") (error "Canceled"))) (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 (if (y-or-n-p "Send selected text to default printer? ") (list (region-beginning) (region-end)) (error "Canceled"))) (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 (if (y-or-n-p "Send selected text to default printer? ") (list (region-beginning) (region-end)) (error "Canceled"))) (print-region-1 start end lpr-switches t)) (defun print-region-1 (start end switches page-headers) (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))) ;; 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. (save-excursion (let ((name (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)) (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 (mapcar (lambda (e) (format e name)) lpr-page-header-switches))) (setq start (point-min) end (point-max)))) (lpr-print-region start end switches name)))) (defun lpr-print-region (start end switches name) (let ((buf (current-buffer)) (nswitches (flatten-tree (mapcar #'lpr-eval-switch ; Dynamic evaluation switches))) (switch-string (if switches (concat " with options " (mapconcat #'identity switches " ")) ""))) (message "Spooling%s..." switch-string) (with-temp-buffer (let ((retval (let ((tempbuf (current-buffer))) (with-current-buffer buf (apply (or print-region-function #'call-process-region) start end lpr-command nil tempbuf nil (nconc (and name lpr-add-switches (list "-J" name)) ;; These belong in pr if we are using that. (and name lpr-add-switches lpr-headers-switches (list "-T" name)) (and (stringp printer-name) (string< "" printer-name) (list (concat lpr-printer-switch printer-name))) nswitches)))))) (if (markerp end) (set-marker end nil)) (funcall (if (memq retval '(nil 0)) #'message #'user-error) "Spooling%s...done%s%s" switch-string (pcase (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)) (0 "") (1 ": ") (_ ":\n")) (buffer-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-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) (funcall arg)) ((symbolp arg) (symbol-value arg)) ((consp arg) (apply (car arg) (cdr arg))) (t nil))) (define-obsolete-function-alias 'lpr-flatten-list #'flatten-tree "27.1") (provide 'lpr) ;;; lpr.el ends here