From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Summary (Re: A system for localizing documentation strings) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:11:27 +0200 Message-ID: <46AA0B1F.7010403@swipnet.se> References: <795F38F4-7253-47DC-97DD-53BED4F0AB97@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> <46A9A6DA.9020908@swipnet.se> <46A9AA59.20403@gnu.org> <46A9B519.9010307@swipnet.se> <86hcnqmc9k.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <46A9BD6E.9040803@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185549140 24763 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2007 15:12:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jasonr@gnu.org, fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 27 17:12:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IERUA-0000zJ-SQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:12:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IERUA-0003oo-58 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:12:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IERU6-0003oN-2F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IERU4-0003nz-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IERU4-0003nw-8n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:12:04 -0400 Original-Received: from av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net ([81.228.9.181]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IERU2-0007pX-9n; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: by av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id C9E563803E; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:11:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.102]) by av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FBC37E94; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:11:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (81-235-205-78-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.78]) by smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9C937E45; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:12:01 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Macintosh/20070716) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75691 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii skrev: >> I wonder if it is larger than gcc. Gcc 4.2.0 has 6489 strings for >> translation. > > I just tried this command in the top-level Emacs directory: > > grep -hR -A1 "^(def" lisp --include="*.el" | grep -v "^--" | grep "^ \"" > > and got 30594 lines of output. And this is only the doc strings; > there are built-ins defined in C, prompts, literal `(message FOO)' > messages, calls to `signal' and `error', etc. > > So yes, Emacs is _definitely_ larger than GCC. Much larger, almost by > an order of magnitude. Thanks for the data. This might be a problem in itself. I don't kow how large a gettext compiled file can be with reasonable performance. Jan D.