Re: customize ps-print-color

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well. On 19 May 1999 at 10:20:32 +0200, Anders Magnusson <Anders.Magnusson(a)solid.lth.se&gt; wrote (on comp.emacs.xemacs): This looks like an outgrowth of a problem I reported last April against XEmacs 20.4. A number of Lisp packages conditionalize behavior on emacs-minor-version ... but don't check emacs-major-version. They were doubtless written when *all* XEmacsen had major version 19, but that makes them do the wrong thing for XEmacs 20.* and XEmacs 21.*. Kind of a Y2K-style bug, if you will. The particular problem you are having is a result of this code from os-utils/ps-print.el (starting at line 1386): (if (or (eq ps-print-emacs-type 'lucid) (eq ps-print-emacs-type 'xemacs)) (if (< emacs-minor-version 12) (setq ps-print-color-p nil)) (require 'faces)) ; face-font, face-underline-p, The following defun, ps-color-device, does something similar. So, once we get an XEmacs 21.12, printing in color will magically work again. :-) Incidentally, I sent mail to the package maintainer (Jacques Duthen) about this, and found that email to the advertised address <duthen(a)cegelec-red.fr&gt; bounces. Mail to the other address mentioned in ps-utils.el <duthen(a)club-internet.fr&gt; did not bounce. Other Lisp files that are, right now, doing the wrong thing because of this problem include: edit-utils/avoid.el psgml/psgml.el psgml/psgml-xemacs.el I don't guarantee that this is an exhaustive list. There are a number of other places where the wrong thing will happen if emacs-minor-version ever becomes sufficiently large (e.g., w3/w3-menu.el would not do the right thing with an XEmacs 21.28). Regards, -- Jerry James Email: jerry(a)cs.ucsb.edu WWW: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~jerry/