How to print formatted Delphi source on a printer?
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Hmmm, how about: open source file in IDE, format it (manually or using Ctrl-D in D2010+), print it (File|Print)?
– Marjan Venema
Well, this is embarrassing. Thanks. I was looking for it in Edit menu and Ctrl+P does not work from IDE. Thanks again.
– user645976
You mean print, like in transfer usable, navigable code from the IDE onto "dead trees"???? Why? This is not necessary the "I'm green so I don't print" talk, I'm simply curious, why would you want to PRINT code? I find printed code awful, a pain to read;
– Cosmin Prund
@Cosmin, I've occasionally found it useful in a code review, either to allow viewing several pages at once, or to allow marking it up with a pen. It can also be helpful it you're giving a presentation and want to provide hand-outs for people to refer to while you talk.
– Rob Kennedy
@Marjan: you should make this an answer so it can be accepted.
– Uwe Raabe
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Once, when I had to take over a legacy red-headed stepchild project that had always gotten the left over efforts of programmers ordered to work on it, I did a lot of analysis of the code flow and logic using Microsoft Word. I copied the code out of the environment (it was in VB, but the same thing would work in Delphi), pasted it into Word in a mono-spaced type and added comments using text boxes, etc. In the comments, I could condense some obscure sequences into pseudo-code or summarize the requirements and effects of code blocks or do anything else that made the code more understandable to me. There were a few times when I needed to discuss the code with others and at that point I could email or sometimes even print my attempts at making sense from some pretty unruly code.
Although this is a reason why I might print some code, I would probably not do it directly from the IDE.
