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Ask HN: Why don't common text editors support printing?

3 points by ccleve ↗ HN
I'm new to the Mac, and I've started looking for a text editor. It turns out that you can't print from several major ones, including SublimeText, Atom and Bracket.

I don't print very often, but when I need to, I need to. What is going on here? Why would these packages omit something so basic?

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[dead] csense
Steve Jobs' daughter's boyfriend, who he disapproved of, worked for HP. So he decided to change the world so that everyone would learn how only uncool people print stuff on physical paper.

If you're the kind of person who wants to use a printer, there's definitely no way you're a cool enough hipster to be using Apple products.

O_H_E
Well...because usually these text editors are used for code not printable documents. And you really won't like the look of a printed "plain" text (i.e. not formatted doc/odt/pdf).

You can try to print any file from the terminal with `lpr filename` which will literary print all characters in a file (a doc/odt contains a lot of "non-desired" stuff) unless the `CUPS` daemon is aware of a certain file format (yours should "know" how to print a pdf correctly)