PO files and Emacs

[Karl Eichwalder]

> Yes (although it might take a few days until I get to it).

Thanks!

> However, I'm confused: should it be called po.el or po-mode.el?  Are we
> talking about 2 different files here?

I think we should start with something small (po.el as send in my last
mail); in po-mode.el is much too much compatibility code.

For more info, please read this message again (it is also available as
a part of:
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-devel/2002-March/006474.html):

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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 01:04:34 +0200 (CEST)
From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden, Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden>,  
        Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
        Bruno Haible <address@hidden>,
        Pablo Saratxaga <address@hidden>,
        Primoz Peterlin <address@hidden>,
        =?iso-8859-1?q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: PO files and Emacs (coding:)   
Message-ID: <address@hidden>

Dear Emacs maintainers,

To make Karl Eichwalder's proposition more concrete.

PO file support consists of two parts:

  1) Make sure that Emacs displays the file in the right encoding.
     All PO files contains multilingual text; the right choice of
     coding-system is essential for them.

  2) A special editing mode for use by translators (po-mode.el by
     Francois Pinard et al.)

I would like to push part 1) into Emacs. Part 2) is probably best
maintained as part of gettext.

There are probably fewer users who need 2) than 1) - it is perfectly
well possible (though tedious) to edit PO files in text-mode.


The support consists of three parts.
1) A new file, attached to this mail.

2001-05-23  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * lisp/textmodes/po.el: New file, extracted from GNU gettext's
        po-mode.el.

2) Make sure that loaddefs.el scans that new file for autoloads.

I don't know how to do this.

3) Put the following form into startup.el or any other files that is
included by startup.el in all cases:

(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.po[tx]?\\'\\|\\.po\\."
                            'po-find-file-coding-system)

Thanks.
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