From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key bindings proposal Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:55:29 +0300 Message-ID: <83wrs5w1lq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <19534.1494.627000.357123@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19537.40472.267000.563053@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <176EDAD3B9E54E39870FA3F84A5DDF3C@us.oracle.com> <19542.56658.583000.394397@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19544.1015.468000.280770@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87lj8nsndb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <19545.14451.62000.682223@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19545.19472.187000.199606@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19545.20656.500000.91025@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19545.24079.734000.989637@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87y6clg5d9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281020345 8032 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2010 14:59:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 14:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: levelhalom@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 05 16:59:02 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh1uO-00050l-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:59:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35346 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oh1uN-0006nL-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52487 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oh1u9-0006ll-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:58:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh1u2-0000YK-B3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:58:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:36516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh1u2-0000XL-4A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:58:38 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L6O00500P614M00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:55:24 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.102.143]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L6O0049SPGAQI40@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:55:23 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:128274 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:01:21 -0400 > Cc: levelhalom@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > It's impractical to internationalize the docstrings; there's too much. > Internationalizing the menu-bar is doable. > > It would be a lot of work, but that need not be an obstacle, because > it doesn't need to be complete to be useful. If a team of translators > adopts sensible priorities for which doc strings to work on first, > their work could be useful even if they have covered only 1% of the > doc strings. I agree. But some initial design is necessary, because the issues are subtle, but non-trivial. This was discussed a few times in the past, see, for example the following two large threads: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg01464.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg01525.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2001-11/msg00945.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2001-12/msg00200.html