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Re: gettext: adding comments/keywords and grepping for those
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: gettext: adding comments/keywords and grepping for those |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:25:27 +0100 (CET) |
Karl Eichwalder writes:
> Maintaining compendium files it would be nice to have the possibility to
> add user defined keywords as comments.
All these kinds of comments - date of translation, translator,
dialect, orthography, and what else - are translator comments, in the
sense that the tools won't attempt to modify or rewrite them.
> 'msgattrib' looks like a candidate for such an enhancement.
msgattrib only wants to deal with a few specific attributes.
> Then 'msggrep' can learn to look through comments, too.
I can offer a msggrep option '-C', for grepping in the translator
comments. Would that serve your purpose?
Bruno