Re: Problems with po-mode.el

[Karl Eichwalder]

Greg Ward <address@hidden> writes:

> With XEmacs, I'm using the latest po-mode.el thanks to XEmacs' package
> management system.  With GNU Emacs, the po-mode.el shipped with Emacs,
> namely version 1.1.1.1.

For the record, po-mode.el isn't packaged with emacs-21.2 (or later);
po-moce.el comes with gettext and version info is gone from
po-mode.el.  po.el is availalbe in the Emacs CVS (trunk only, AFAIK).

> Problem #1: if I attempt to open a .po file in XEmacs, I get the message
>
>   Autoloading failed to define function po-find-file-coding-system
>
> and the file does not load at all.

I guess the following:

    . You do not use the latest version of po-mode.el

    . You didn't make available po-compat.el which also comes with
    gettext.

Add to your .emacs (replace .../path/to/po-mode with something
sensible):

(add-to-list 'load-path ".../path/to/po-mode")
(autoload 'po-mode "po-mode"
  "Major mode for translators to edit PO files" t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.po\\'\\|\\.po\\." . po-mode)
                            auto-mode-alist))

and load a .po file.  This work for me out of the box with XEmacs
21.4.12 coming with SuSE Linux 8.2 i386.


> Problem #2: in GNU Emacs, I can load or create a .po file just fine.

Good.

> But when I try to use that .po file to drive string searching and
> marking (ie.  use po-tags-search), I get the message
>
>    Symbol's value as variable is void: po-marking-overlay
>
> when I hit "," in the po-mode buffer.

There is something flaky with the ',' key.  "M-x po-tags-search RET"
works for me when I load the .c file I want to assign "_( ... )"
markers.

> Are either of these known problems?  Are there fixes available?

I'll look into the tags-search problem the next days.

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