Re: [gedit-list] gedit command line question.

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Rich Cooke wrote:
> We are migrating from Solaris to Linux. We have several perl/Tk
> applications that use /usr/openwin/bin/mp for printing user text
> files. All our users like the prints with the file pathnames, page
> numbers and alike, makes it easier for them to find their prints.
> We have tried lp with prettyprint option. Not bad but does not seem to
> support word wrap, and full file pathnames.
>
> Tried a man on gedit, there seems to be limited command line inputs.
> What I would like to do on the command line is sort of:
>
> gedit -nowindow -printto printername -file filename
>
> This way, from within our perl/Tk application, we can use gedit to print
> specific files with the wordwrap and page headers without having the GUI
> popup.
>
>   
Hi Rich,

   I am sorry but as you found out by reading the manual gedit doesn't 
support such use case. Maybe it could be added in future versions, 
though I am not really sure it fits in gedit, which after all is 
supposed to be a GUI text editor.
I am pretty sure that linux offers a large set of command line tools to 
do what you need.

Paolo