swflint / lp-transient

A transient menu for lp

transient-extras - Extensions and application menus based on transient

Introduction

This package provides a set of extensions to transient and interactive menus to common UNIX tools and applications.

transient-extras-lp

transient-extras-lp provides a menu based on transient to call the CUPS printing program lp on the current buffer or a selected file.

transient-extras-lp can be enabled for dired and pdf-tools buffers as follows (make sure that transient-extras.el is in load-path)

(require 'transient-extras-lp)

(with-eval-after-load 'dired
  (define-key
    dired-mode-map
    (kbd "C-c C-p") #'transient-extras-lp-menu))

(with-eval-after-load 'pdf-tools
  (define-key
    pdf-misc-minor-mode-map
    (kbd "C-c C-p") #'transient-extras-lp-menu))

Or simply call transient-extras-lp-menu to print the current buffer or the selected files in dired. If a buffer has an associated file, the file is printed, otherwise the buffer content is sent to lp.

Additional Configuration

By pressing d, you can input the name of the printer. The command lpstat -a is used to get a list of installed and network printers. If you have async-completing-read installed then the command will be run asynchronously.

transient-extras-a2ps

transient-extras-a2ps provides a menu to call the a2ps printing program on the current buffer or selected file.

transient-extras-a2ps may be enabled for dired or other buffers using the following code (assuming transient-extras.el is in the load-path):

(require 'transient-extras-a2ps)

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-p") #'transient-extras-a2ps)

Note that this binding will be shadowed in places where it is specifically bound in a local map.

Additional Configuration

All additional configuration and description of options may be found in the a2ps info manual.