Re: 23.0.50; ps-print-buffer-with-faces hangs on w32

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

> Emacs hangs in direct-print-region-helper in the call to
>
>   (write-region start end printer t 0)
>
> at the end of the function. Emacs is completely hanged. I have to kill 
> Emacs from Windows Task Manager.
Did you try to type `C-g' (one or more times)??  What happened?


> On my pc (Windows XP pro) printer has here got the value C:\PRN. That 
> value has nothing to do with my printer, which is a Windows printer.
What exactly does this mean?

Does any Emacs variable have the value "C:\\PRN"?

What is a "Windows printer"?


> To reproduce this do for example
>
>   emacs -Q
>   M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces
Well, I can't reproduce this problem in my GNU/Linux (Debian).

Please, do the following steps:

1. start Emacs without -Q

2. switch to *scratch* buffer

3. type:   M-x (insert (ps-setup)) RET

4. save *scratch* buffer in a file and send it back to me.

5. exit Emacs

6. start Emacs with -Q

7. repeat steps 2 to 5


> on a pc with a Windows printer (the probably most common form of 
> printer on a w32 pc today).
>
> In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2008-01-04 on LENNART-69DE564
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/g/include'
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: ENU
>   locale-coding-system: cp1252
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
>   utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>
> p i <backspace> s - p r o i n t <backspace> <backspace>
> <backspace> <backspace> i n t - b u f f e r - w i t
> h - f a c e s SPC h a n g s SPC o n SPC w 3 2 <return>
> i <backspace> T h <backspace> <backspace> E m a c s
> SPC h a n g s SPC i n SPC C-v k k <backspace> <backspace>
> <escape> k k k <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
> C-w C-x k <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>
>
> Recent messages:
> Warning: no fonts matching `-*-dejavu sans 
> mono-normal-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1' available [2 times]
> Warning: no fonts matching 
> `-*-opensymbol-normal-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1' available [2 
> times]
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> kill-region: The mark is not set now, so there is no region