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LOL. TIL you can’t print from VSCode.

simonjgreen 1mo ago
Or Obsidian
maybewhenthesun 1mo ago
printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. Used to be that printing a text file was just `cat myfile.txt > /dev/lp0` . It has been a while since I printed a plain text file, but I guess there's still a similar command available with some research.
- ptman 1mo ago
  vim/nvim at least have :print
- voidUpdate 1mo ago
  I've done the same from a raspberry pi to a receipt printer, just piping to lp0
- deleted 1mo ago
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- IdiotSavage 1mo ago
  TextEdit.app supports printing, so does Notepad.exe (unless they removed that recently).
- namibj 1mo ago
  I think back in the days before office workers that happened to do their work on a computer had access to the ancient relatives of "Microsoft Word"/"Libreoffice Writer", it was pretty normal for printers to take care of plain text files, with about as much fidelity as manual operation of a classic purely mechanical Typewriter. Since then printers progressively forgot how to cope with such "documents", though IIRC good-old HP "PCL" should only require about a bare minimum of framing/job control to get a modern printer to handle ASCII plain text.
- geocar 1mo ago
  > printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. It's always been a thing: We programmed on paper before we had screen editors, and so early screen editors have always had a way to murder trees on demand: In vi it's :ha In emacs it's M-x print-buffer > It has been a while since I printed a plain text file, but I guess there's still a similar command available with some research. `lp myfile.txt` I still prefer using hardcopy for reading/debugging.
- NooneAtAll3 1mo ago
  > printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. there's literally ctrl+p shortcut for printing
- trashb 1mo ago
  I used to print a lot of code from Geany, that has some nice support for printing line numbers and code highlights that I have a hard time replicating in other tools.
- jimmythefish 1mo ago
  Fairly sure you can netcat asci on port 9100 to HP Jet Direct printers still.
rrr_oh_man 1mo ago
Edit: This one seems to work well: pdconsec.vscode-print Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pdconsec.vscode-print https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pdconsec...
- nacs 1mo ago
  And of course it just renders an HTML document (applies some CSS to the text content) and then uses the embedded browser's printing.

Or Obsidian

printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. Used to be that printing a text file was just `cat myfile.txt > /dev/lp0` . It has been a while since I printed a plain text file, but I guess there's still a similar command available with some research.

ptman 1mo ago
vim/nvim at least have :print
voidUpdate 1mo ago
I've done the same from a raspberry pi to a receipt printer, just piping to lp0
deleted 1mo ago
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IdiotSavage 1mo ago
TextEdit.app supports printing, so does Notepad.exe (unless they removed that recently).
namibj 1mo ago
I think back in the days before office workers that happened to do their work on a computer had access to the ancient relatives of "Microsoft Word"/"Libreoffice Writer", it was pretty normal for printers to take care of plain text files, with about as much fidelity as manual operation of a classic purely mechanical Typewriter. Since then printers progressively forgot how to cope with such "documents", though IIRC good-old HP "PCL" should only require about a bare minimum of framing/job control to get a modern printer to handle ASCII plain text.
geocar 1mo ago
> printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. It's always been a thing: We programmed on paper before we had screen editors, and so early screen editors have always had a way to murder trees on demand: In vi it's :ha In emacs it's M-x print-buffer > It has been a while since I printed a plain text file, but I guess there's still a similar command available with some research. `lp myfile.txt` I still prefer using hardcopy for reading/debugging.
NooneAtAll3 1mo ago
> printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. there's literally ctrl+p shortcut for printing
trashb 1mo ago
I used to print a lot of code from Geany, that has some nice support for printing line numbers and code highlights that I have a hard time replicating in other tools.
jimmythefish 1mo ago
Fairly sure you can netcat asci on port 9100 to HP Jet Direct printers still.

rrr_oh_man 1mo ago

Edit: This one seems to work well: pdconsec.vscode-print Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pdconsec.vscode-print https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pdconsec...

nacs 1mo ago
And of course it just renders an HTML document (applies some CSS to the text content) and then uses the embedded browser's printing.