abed@venus.wustl.edu (Abed M. Hammoud) (04/30/91)
Hello, Is there a way to pipe out the content of a buffer in Vi to the printer. So for example this would allow me to select part of the screen, save it in lets say the a buffer. and then print the contents of the buffer. I tried to write the contents of the buffer to a /tmp file and then print the file but it didn't work good... Please help, any comments are appreciated... No flames Please... A VI fan..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abed M. Hammoud | abed@saturn.wustl.edu Washington University. | Office (314) 726-7547 Electronic Systems & Signals Research Laboratory.| Department of Electrical/Biomedical Engineering. | St. Louis, MO , 63130 USA | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) (04/30/91)
In article <1991Apr30.152450.18717@cec1.wustl.edu> abed@venus.wustl.edu (Abed M. Hammoud) writes: > Is there a way to pipe out the content of a buffer in Vi > to the printer. > So for example this would allow me to select part of the > screen, save it in lets say the a buffer. and then print > the contents of the buffer. To send a portion of your buffer to the printer, mark the beginning of range, say by m, go to the end of the range, and type :'m,.w !lpr You may have to replace the "lpr" command with whatenver command your system uses to send files to printers. -- Rouben Rostamian Telephone: (301) 455-2458 Department of Mathematics and Statistics e-mail: University of Maryland Baltimore County bitnet: rostamian@umbc.bitnet Baltimore, MD 21228, U.S.A. internet: rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu
lutwak@athena.mit.edu (Robert Lutwak) (05/02/91)
In article <1991Apr30.152450.18717@cec1.wustl.edu> abed@venus.wustl.edu (Abed M. Hammoud) writes: > Is there a way to pipe out the content of a buffer in Vi > to the printer. > I don't know about a buffer, but I often do: :.,.+n w !lp where n is some number of lines that I want to print.