Re: po-mode.el in 0.11.3-pre2 not working on Debian's emacs21

[Jordi Mallach]

Hi Karl,

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 09:15:01AM +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> > Autoloading failed to define function po-find-file-coding-system
> > and po-mode doesn't start at all.
> I removed the form from po-mode.el; please, load the separate
> po-compat.el file.  Example:
> 
> (autoload 'po-mode "po-mode")
> (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.po[tx]?\\'" . po-mode)
>                             auto-mode-alist))
> 
> ;; To automatically use proper fonts under Emacs 20/21, also add:
> 
> (unless (featurep 'po-find-file-coding-system)
>   (autoload 'po-find-file-coding-system "po-compat"))
> (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.po[tx]?\\'"
>                             'po-find-file-coding-system)
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- cut here -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Ah, I see. Santiago, I guess this is what you need for the packages
then.

> Background: Current Emacs CVS version ("21.3.50") and the next Emacs
> major release will come with `po-find-file-coding-system' on its own to
> display .po files properly without loading po-mode.el.

Hmm. I don't know what you mean with "properly", po files show ok (like
a normal file) when I don't have po-mode installed. What will newer
emacs do then? Probably offtopic, but I'm pretty new to Emacs :)

Jordi
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