On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:30:48 am Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, John Culleton wrote: > > For some time now I have used Gvim on Linux Slackware without > > difficulty in printing. But my latest Slackware is set up wtih Cups > > and most programs give me a choice between my two printers. > > > > It appears that Gvim doesn't use Cups. And the older lpr method > > doesn't seem to work. Is there a way to cajole Gvim to use Cups as > > does Scribus, Gimp, Acrobat Reader, KMail etc.? > > It would surprise me (a lot) to learn that GVim truly isn't using CUPS. > On virtually every system I've used that has CUPS installed, `lpr` is > part of CUPS. (On OpenSUSE `lpr` is part of 'cups- client', under Gentoo > it's part of 'net-print/cups') > > If you're sure it's not using CUPS and need to finagle it, take a look > > in the help concerning the 'printexpr' option: > :help pexpr-option > > Otherwise, to send output to a different printer, use the 'printdevice' > > option: > :help 'pdev' > > AFAIK, GVim won't use a standard "Print" dialog (though some of the help > text seems to suggest otherwise... maybe only on Win32?).
-- Thanks I fixed it by copying the lpoptions file from an old partition and making sure that /usr/doc/cups belonged to root:root. John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
