How do you print code?

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I would really like to print out stjepang&rsquo;s library smol. It&rsquo;s just a few thousand lines of code and I have a feeling that it would be easier for me to understand on paper.How does anyone do this? I&rsquo;ve heard that companies sometimes do code reviews on paper, so I figured this would be a solved problem.Still, I couldn&rsquo;t find a decent solution anywhere. So there&rsquo;s the question for Ask HN. How in the world does anyone print code in a reasonable way?By &ldquo;reasonable&rdquo;, I mean:1. with line numbers,2. with syntax highlighting,3. and preferably some sane separation of source files.Smol:https://github.com/stjepang/smol

aljgz · Accepted Answer

I know this is not answering your question, but... I strongly recommend against printing code, why?
You lose facilities like: goto source, search/replace, modifications (I might modify/format a piece of code temporarily, to help me understand it better, might rename functions, variables, add lines to visually separate parts of code, etc) and many more.
You re-enforce your discomfort with reading/writing code on the screen. I'm trying to assume different reasons that you might have to learn a code and for all of them that I can imagine, you'll be better off as someone who feels at home with the screen. So I suggest you to resist this temptation and do what you ultimately will do.
Out of curiosity, Is your job/situation/skills in a way that being good with screen will not seriously benefit you? How?

fm2606 · Answer

When I was a kid in the 80's I use to print my code. It was on a dot matrix printer tractor fed paper. This option would be better, IMO, than loose leaf as the pages stay in order.I think it is a good idea to print it out to help you understand. I consider it on occasion but don't want to pay for the ink and paper. Plus printers have some unspoken vendetta against me...they hate me and I hate them.

smlckz · Answer

$ mkdir rtfs $ for F in src/**.rs; do > pygmentize -o rtfs/$(basename $F .rs).rtf -O linenos=1 $F > done Now open the .rtf files with a word processor and print them.To change the highlighting theme, e.g. to "pastie": $ pygmentize -O style=pastie,linenos=1 ....

cpach · Answer

I recently printed some C code for studying. I used GNU Enscript to convert it to Postscript. (Enscript can also send the job directly to the printer, at least on macOS.) Very handy program. I think it can do syntax highlighting for some languages. Are you sure you need that though?

ApolloRising · Answer

This will do what you want.https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nobuhito...

zhte415 · Answer

print()

non-entity · Answer

By using an IDE or editor with a decent print function. On Windows I've printed I've from Visual Studio and Notepad++. Not sure of a good editor for printing on Linux or Mac.

How do you print code?

`$ mkdir rtfs $ for F in src/**.rs; do > pygmentize -o rtfs/$(basename $F .rs).rtf -O linenos=1 $F > done`
Now open the .rtf files with a word processor and print them.
To change the highlighting theme, e.g. to "pastie":
`$ pygmentize -O style=pastie,linenos=1 ....`

I recently printed some C code for studying. I used GNU Enscript to convert it to Postscript. (Enscript can also send the job directly to the printer, at least on macOS.) Very handy program. I think it can do syntax highlighting for some languages. Are you sure you need that though?

This will do what you want.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nobuhito...

print()

By using an IDE or editor with a decent print function. On Windows I've printed I've from Visual Studio and Notepad++. Not sure of a good editor for printing on Linux or Mac.