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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 wh

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 28d ago
vim/nvim at least have :print
voidUpdate 28d ago
I've done the same from a raspberry pi to a receipt printer, just piping to lp0
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IdiotSavage 28d ago
TextEdit.app supports printing, so does Notepad.exe (unless they removed that recently).
namibj 28d 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 28d 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 28d ago
> printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. there's literally ctrl+p shortcut for printing
trashb 28d 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 28d ago
Fairly sure you can netcat asci on port 9100 to HP Jet Direct printers still.

ptman 28d ago

vim/nvim at least have :print

voidUpdate 28d ago

I've done the same from a raspberry pi to a receipt printer, just piping to lp0

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IdiotSavage 28d ago

TextEdit.app supports printing, so does Notepad.exe (unless they removed that recently).

namibj 28d 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 28d 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 28d ago

> printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. there's literally ctrl+p shortcut for printing

trashb 28d 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 28d ago

Fairly sure you can netcat asci on port 9100 to HP Jet Direct printers still.