Re: Printing in Vim: Solved via Oualline's book

[Todd A. Gibson]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:44:20PM -0400, John P. Verel wrote:
> One thing that Oualline's new Vim book solved for me (dummy me) is how to
> print to a system printer from within vim:
> 
> :w ! lpr
> 
> Works like a charm, especially in visual mode.
> 
> Am I the only one who'd been stymied at how to print from within vim?
> 

I didn't know to do it that way.  I've always used the less
efficient:

:w
:!lpr %

-TAG