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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: file extensions for gettext/msgfmt
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 11:09:32 +0300 (IDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020707110755.23445A@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <shk7o8f3em.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de>


On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> > Files produced by msgfmt are not junk, they can be copied, renamed,
> > and even edited if necessary.
> 
> These files are binary files.

IMHO, being binary files is not a reason good enough to be added to that 
list.

> You don't want to edit them

That's for the user to decide; there's "M-x hexl-find-file".

> when I view
> a directory with po files using dired, I don't want to see the .mo
> files.

Then you can add them as your local customizations.

> Concerning copying and renaming: That's valid for other files, too
> (.dvi, .pdf, .log, .aux, .elc).

No.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-07  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-05 10:20 file extensions for Openoffice Francesco Potorti`
2002-07-05 15:39 ` file extensions for gettext/msgfmt Karl Eichwalder
2002-07-07  4:50   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-07-07  6:38     ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-07-07  8:09       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-07-08  8:52         ` Andreas Schwab
2002-07-08 14:44           ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-07-08  9:10         ` Miles Bader
2002-07-09  1:43           ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-09  6:01             ` Miles Bader
2002-07-08 18:20         ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-08 13:09     ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-05 21:04 ` file extensions for Openoffice Pavel Janík
2002-07-05 22:04 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-07 18:31   ` Francesco Potorti`

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