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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:234691 Archived-At: >> >> Let's use ngettext plurals from now on. >> > >> > I don't think I understand the practical implications of that. Could >> > you please elaborate? >> >> This means replacing >> >> (message "Packages to install: %d" n) >> >> with >> >> (message (ngettext "One package will be installed" >> "%d packages will be installed" n) n) > > But since we don't yet have ngettext, we cannot yet use this > paradigm. I thought by "from now on" you literally meant from now; > did I misunderstand? Yes, literally. After the patch from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-03/msg00586.html is pushed to master, ngettext is available to use for pluralization.