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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 35287@debbugs.gnu.org, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#35287: dired-do-copy English beef-up
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 23:59:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8avhvx4.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd2d36cd-2da0-4f7f-8230-889a45f90a60@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:53:40 -0700 (PDT)")

>> >> > Copy: 11 files
>> >> > Actually "Copied 11 files" is proper English and doesn't leave us
>> >> > somewhat worrying...
>> >>
>> >> Other messages that use the same operation name:
>> >>
>> >>   "Copy: 2 of 3 files skipped"
>> >>   "Copy failed for 2 of 3 files"
>> >>
>> >> Shouldn't the latter be "Copying failed"?
>> >> So for every operation three verb forms are needed:
>> >> "Copy", "Copying", "Copied", correct?
>> >
>> > My own advice is to leave it alone.
>>
>> This is important in light of our efforts for i18n.
>
> You could perhaps use this:
>
>   Copy * [2 files] to: ~/foobar/
>   Copy: 2 files done

Then a complete set of messages:

  Copy: 3 files done
  Copy: 2 of 3 files skipped
  Copy: 2 of 3 files failed
  Copy: 2 files in 3 requests failed





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-18 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-15 11:49 bug#35287: dired-do-copy English beef-up 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-16 20:35 ` Juri Linkov
2019-04-16 21:57   ` Drew Adams
2019-04-17 19:04     ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-17 19:58     ` Juri Linkov
2019-04-17 22:53       ` Drew Adams
2019-04-18 10:28         ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-18 20:59         ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2019-04-18 21:10           ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19  2:08             ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-19  4:33               ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19 13:48                 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-19 14:28                   ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19 15:03                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-19 15:11                     ` Drew Adams
2019-04-19 15:14                     ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-24 20:15             ` Juri Linkov
2019-05-05 19:43               ` Juri Linkov

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