Re: w32 issues

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> You mean that printing is broken?  I don't agree with your wording,
> but I have no objections to saying something like "Emacs will hang if
> the user tries to print to a port that has no printer device connected
> to it."
>   

Since that issue is a Windows problem, and unfixable in Emacs AFAIK, I 
think the problem to put in FOR-RELEASE is that the DEFAULT setting for 
printer-name on windows is a port that in 2008, will not be connected to 
a printer for probably more than 90% of users.

I am confused by all the code we have for printing these days. There is 
a function default-printer-name, which would seem to offer a big 
improvement on what we have now. It is used in dos-w32.el in functions 
called from printing.el, but the code in printing.el does not seem to be 
involved in the standard ps-print-* or print-* commands.