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LOL. TIL you can’t print from VSCode.

rrr_oh_man 8d ago
Edit: This one seems to work well: pdconsec.vscode-print Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pdconsec.vscode-print https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pdconsec...
- nacs 7d ago
  And of course it just renders an HTML document (applies some CSS to the text content) and then uses the embedded browser's printing.
simonjgreen 8d ago
Or Obsidian
maybewhenthesun 8d ago
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.
- trashb 8d 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.
- voidUpdate 8d ago
  I've done the same from a raspberry pi to a receipt printer, just piping to lp0
- deleted 8d ago
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- IdiotSavage 8d ago
  TextEdit.app supports printing, so does Notepad.exe (unless they removed that recently).
- ptman 8d ago
  vim/nvim at least have :print
- namibj 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago
  > printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. there's literally ctrl+p shortcut for printing
- jimmythefish 8d ago
  Fairly sure you can netcat asci on port 9100 to HP Jet Direct printers still.

Edit: This one seems to work well: pdconsec.vscode-print Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pdconsec.vscode-print https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pdconsec...

nacs 7d ago
And of course it just renders an HTML document (applies some CSS to the text content) and then uses the embedded browser's printing.

simonjgreen 8d ago

Or Obsidian

maybewhenthesun 8d ago

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.

trashb 8d 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.
voidUpdate 8d ago
I've done the same from a raspberry pi to a receipt printer, just piping to lp0
deleted 8d ago
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IdiotSavage 8d ago
TextEdit.app supports printing, so does Notepad.exe (unless they removed that recently).
ptman 8d ago
vim/nvim at least have :print
namibj 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago
> printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. there's literally ctrl+p shortcut for printing
jimmythefish 8d ago
Fairly sure you can netcat asci on port 9100 to HP Jet Direct printers still.