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From: jbg@sei.cmu.edu (John Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: print-buffer usage?
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Date: 17 Dec 90 14:40:48 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University (Software Engineering Institute), Pgh, PA
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In-reply-to: steveh@moosehead.mips.com's message of 14 Dec 90 22:01:39 GMT


In article print-buffer usage? of 14 Dec 90 22:01:39 GMT steveh@moosehead.mips.com (Stephen C. Hill) writes:

>The first question is, how does one specify a list when using the "s"
>command within Edit-Option?  If I type ("-PiD") in the mini-buffer, it
>responds with "Invalid function: "-PiD"".  So, I just went in and

To prevent evaluation, type

	'("-PiD")

I put the following into my .emacs file

   (set-variable 'lpr-switches (cons (concat "-h -B -P" (getenv "PRINTER")) nil))

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