From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PO files and Emacs Date: 12 Mar 2002 16:53:36 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xsn75zssf.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <15502.1402.523363.275174@honolulu.ilog.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1015948471 24213 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2002 15:54:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:54:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Karl Eichwalder , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, sanvila@unex.es, neil@darlow.co.uk, handa@etl.go.jp, schwab@suse.de Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16kobf-0006IQ-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:54:31 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16kodt-00054T-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:56:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kobJ-0004TP-00; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16koZy-0004Ia-00; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (kfs2.local.filanet.dk [192.168.1.182]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id BAB3E7C035; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:52:35 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Bruno Haible In-Reply-To: <15502.1402.523363.275174@honolulu.ilog.fr> Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:1875 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1875 Bruno Haible writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > However, I'm confused: should it be called po.el or po-mode.el? Are we > > talking about 2 different files here? > > We are talking about two different files. po.el does only the encoding > recognition. It is suitable for viewing PO files and doesn't need a > manual. Whereas po-mode.el is a major mode for editing (not just > viewing) PO files. po-mode.el is and remains included in the GNU > gettext package, because it is documented in the GNU gettext manual > and needs some of the GNU gettext programs to be installed. > IMO, the commentary in the po.el file is *very* sparse, and it is hard to see when this file is needed, and for what purpose... Also, IMHO, the name 'po.el' doesn't suggest anything about this being an "extract" of a larger po-mode.el. Maybe one of po-file.el, po-view.el, po-find.el, po-mule.el, po-basic.el, or po-coding.el would be a better choice. Should this go into lisp/textmodes/ or lisp/international/ ? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel