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

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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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I'm using Sublime Text for 5+ years. Only after your post I realize there's no File->Print feature, never needed it or just copy&pasted text into another editor like OpenOffice.

In https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/printing-from-sublime/281 I see there's a export-to-HTML plugin as work-around one can install. https://github.com/facelessuser/ExportHtml

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)

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