Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:59:34 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vim and printing Message-ID: <20031011055934.GA21255@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20031011004213.6f6fe51e.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> References: <20031011004213.6f6fe51e.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net>
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2003, Bryan Cassidy wrote: >All this talk about vim made me wonder something.. BTW, I love vim >compared to vi. Don't know what it is yet but I felt very comfortable >and confident using it. I was just wondering. Is there a way to print >with a command "inside" vi? Sometimes I would just like to print the >file and don't want to quit, save, and print it. These two sequences will write and print the file :w :!lpr % Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins.'' -- H.L. Mencken, 1923
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