vim and printing

[Bill Campbell]

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
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