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Re: Why emacs have not native language menu
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Ilya Zakharevich |
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Re: Why emacs have not native language menu |
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Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:48:23 +0000 (UTC) |
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[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>], who wrote in article
<jwvir8apj5p.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>:
> As for why, I would guess it's a mix of difficulty (need someone who
> understand enough of Emacs and of localization to deal with it both at the
> C and the Lisp level)
Would not it be trivial to just advice() bind-key() (sp?)?
> - many elements are sufficiently dynamic that it's going to be
> difficult to add support to translate them.
How this is different from localization of other applications?
> - an important side of Emacs is that it exposes a lot of its internals: many
> important commands are reached via M-x where the term you enter is the
> name of a function (i.e. not quite a string), and all the online help
> refers to those things as well.
How this is related to the menu?
> Still, it's quite doable.
I think it is practically trivial. The C part is just to expose the
localization part of CRTL to Lisp; the rest can be done through
advice().
Please correct me if I'm wrong,
Ilya
- Re: Why emacs have not native language menu, (continued)
- Re: Why emacs have not native language menu, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/07/24
- Re: Why emacs have not native language menu, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2007/07/24
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- Re: Why emacs have not native language menu, Hadron, 2007/07/24
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