> 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.
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.
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.
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.
> 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.
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.
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.
TextEdit.app supports printing, so does Notepad.exe (unless they removed that recently).
I've done the same from a raspberry pi to a receipt printer, just piping to lp0
Fairly sure you can netcat asci on port 9100 to HP Jet Direct printers still.
vim/nvim at least have :print
> printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think.
there's literally ctrl+p shortcut for printing
Edit:
This one seems to work well: pdconsec.vscode-print
Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pdconsec...
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