Re: printing remotely using ssh from within emacs

[Kevin Rodgers]

Joe Corneli wrote:
> I would have thought that adding these lines
>
>  '(lpr-command "cat - | ssh jcorneli@fakehost.edu lpr")
>  '(printer-name "fakeprinter")
>
> to my custom set variables might enable me to print emacs buffers on
> my remote printer using ps-print-buffer. But I seem to have guessed
> wrong. Does anyone know the correct way to set this up?

Contrary to its name, but explained in its doc string, lpr-command is
not a shell command but an executable program (run by
call-process-region).  So your best bet is to put that pipe line into a
shell script, and point lpr-command to the script.

And setting printer-name just causes (concat lpr-printer-switch
printer-name) to be appended to the arguments passed to lpr-command, so
you should just include that in the script.

Finally "cat - | ssh ..." is equivalent to "ssh ...".

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Kevin Rodgers