From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mario Lang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: IRC client for Emacs Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:49:30 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <878z38ld5x.fsf@lexx.delysid.org> References: <873ctot40n.fsf@emacswiki.org> <20020809223753.955308.FMU31823@piglet.prv.splode.com> <200208110355.g7B3tOo06247@wijiji.santafe.edu> <877kixtg8w.fsf@emacswiki.org> <20020811160610.424772.FMU9022@piglet.prv.splode.com> <87fzxhs1ia.fsf@emacswiki.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029401357 29076 127.0.0.1 (15 Aug 2002 08:49:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:49:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17fGJg-0007Yp-00 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:49:16 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17fGj5-0006dH-00 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:15:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17fGKb-0006KY-00; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 04:50:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17fGJm-0006Jt-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 04:49:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17fGJk-0006Jh-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 04:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: from tk212017102236.teleweb.at ([212.17.102.236] helo=lexx.delysid.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17fGJk-0006Jc-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 04:49:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mlang by lexx.delysid.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17fGJv-0007t4-00 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:49:31 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (huug's message of "Thu, 15 Aug 2002 01:10:45 +0200") Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6559 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6559 huug writes: > On 2002-08-14, Alex Schroeder wrote: >> (erc-define-catalog >> 'english '((bad-ping-response . "Unexpected PING response from %n >> (time %t)") (bad-syntax . "Bad syntax") (cannot-find-file . "Cannot >> find file %f") (cannot-read-file . "Cannot read file %f") (connect >> . "Connecting to %S:%p... ") > > Doesn't look that robust: the order of %n%t and %S%p thingies is > language-dependent. That's exactly the reason why we decided to use format-spec instead of simply %s%s%s like constructs. The catalog can be translated, and the order does NOT matter. So you can either write "%a is %b" or "%b is %a". -- CYa, Mario