Re: printing.el v6.6.2

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:

> Here is printing.el package that, perhaps, it'll be integrated with Emacs.
> 
> Opinions...

Thanks.  It always annoyed me that ps-print options cannot be turned
on from the menu bar.

A few comments, based on a very superficial reading.

  - The documentation should IMHO be moved into a separate Texinfo
    manual.  It is unreasonable to have so much useful information in
    a commentary as plain text: it lacks indices, cross-references,
    and other means of looking up info in an efficient manner.

  - The menu-bar items should be put under File->Print, not under
    Tools.  (The latter was correct for Emacs 19 and 20, but not
    anymore.)  I also think that the options should be under a
    separate submenu, but that's a minor issue.

  - The menu-bar menu items should have help text.

  - Why doesn't pr-temp-dir use temporary-file-directory if that's
    available?  The way the code works now, a user will have to
    customize both pr-temp-dir and temporary-file-directory, if the
    defaults aren't appropriate.  Also, why do you DOSify the file
    name in pr-temp-dir (as well as many other file names used in the
    package)?

  - Shouldn't pr-interface be a separate file?