Re: printing problems

gfp <[email protected]> Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:43:57 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hi,

thanks very much
I changed all of that.

Am 03.04.26 um 15:51 schrieb [email protected]:
> gfp <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>>>
>>>        Once you have entered your printer’s name, click on the
>>>        ‘Apply’ button to set the value of
>>>        ‘pr-txt-printer-alist’ for the current session (ONLY!).
>>
>> why only for the current session?
>>
> 
> There are two buttons in the Easy Customization that change
> the value of a user option: ‘Apply’ and ‘Apply and Save’
> If you click on the ‘Apply’ button, then it will set the
> value for the current session, only.  If you click on the
> ‘Apply and Save’, then it will write the expression to your
> initialization file (which it is possible to specify).

> 
>>>        You can then click on the ‘State’ button, select ‘Show
>>>        Saved Lisp Expression’ to see what the Lisp expression
>>>        is that you can use as the value for your ‘setopt’
>>>        expression.  This expression will have ‘default’ in it,
>>>        which is all that you need if you have only one printer --
>>>        your default.
>>
>> I saved this "default" option in my init.el file.
>>
>> But if I can set this in my customization
>> why do I need it in my init.el file?
>>
I meant: my custom.el file instead of my init.el file.
> 
> Your customization file can be your init.el file or it can
> be another file.  See (info "(emacs) Saving Customizations").
> For simplicity, unless you change it, it will be your
> initialization file.
> 
>>>
>>> You can repeat the steps above for each of your ‘setopt’
>>> expressions.  This will help you to get the form of each
>>> expression’s value set correctly.  A reason that the Easy
>>> Customization was created was to help Emacs users so that
>>> they do not need to know the form of the values (which can
>>> be complex).  You can use it exclusively (discarding the use
>>> of ‘setopt’) or you can use it to help you write your
>>> ‘setopt’ expressions.
>>>
>> this part in my init.el file looks now like this:
>> I put the old values after the new value
>>
>>    (setopt pr-txt-printer-alist
>>               '((default "lpr" nil "HP-Officejet-J4500-series")))
>>
>> ...
>>
>> my init.el file:
>>
>> ...
>>       (setopt pr-txt-name      'prt_06a)
> 
> The value that you choose here should be one of the values
> that you set in ‘prt-txt-printer-alist’.  If you have only
> one printer, specified in the association list as ‘default’,
> then this value would be ‘default’ instead of ‘prt_06a’:
> 
>    (setopt pr-txt-name      'default)
> 
> Note that because this value is the default that Emacs sets,
> you do not have to include this expression at all.  Simply
> confirm that the value is ‘default’ by typing
>    C-h v pr-txt-name
> 
>>       (setq pr-ps-printer-alist                          ;;bug in emacs
>> if warning comes up by setting setopt
>>             '((lps_06b "lpr" nil "-P" "lps_06b")
>>               (lps_07c "lpr" nil nil  "lps_07c")
>>               (lps_08c nil   nil nil  "lps_08c")
>>               ))
> 
> Again, your value for ‘pr-ps-printer-alist’ looks
> suspiciously identical to the value in the docstring (*Help*
> text) for ‘pr-ps-printer-alist’.  Unless you have a separate
> printer for printing PostScript files, this expression
> should be:
> 
>    (setopt pr-ps-printer-alist
>            '((default "lpr" nil "-P" "HP-Officejet-J4500-series")))
> 
> And then:
>    (setopt pr-ps-name       'lps_06b)
> would be:
>    (setopt pr-ps-name       'default)
> 
> Note that because this value is the default that Emacs sets,
> you do not have to include this expression at all.  Simply
> confirm that the value is ‘default’ by typing
>    C-h v pr-ps-name
> 
> Again, confirm that each ‘setopt’ expression has the correct
> value by placing point after each expression and evaluating
> them by typing C-x C-e.
>
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