Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> AFAIR, you brought this up on the developers' list some time ago.  In
> response, you were offered to write code to access the current default
> printer on all supported systems, so that Emacs could use that
> interface in a platform-independent fashion.  IIRC, that was the last
> I've heard about this idea, which IMHO is too bad.
>  
Which I have tried to make clear once again would be the wrong solution. 
Unfortunately much more is needed to use the Windows printing interface.

Just as you I am happy to quit this discussion now. I want to say a last 
word to clarify my position on this: If anyone want to write the piece 
of code that is required for using the Windows printing interface from 
within Emacs that would very nice. That would be the right solution in 
my opinion. (As far as I know this will always bring up a box from the 
Windows printing interface asking for some options for printing. But I 
am not sure.)

I do not know how much work this is. What I believe is that it should 
mimic the code in Emacs writing to the screen. There are surely code 
doing this kind of things in projects like Firefox, OpenOffice.org etc.