Re: Bug#320174: gettext: msgfmt --statistics should output the filename (fwd)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-07-28 13:45:49 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > "msgfmt --statistics fr.po" outputs a line like:
> >
> > 922 translated messages, 53 fuzzy translations, 47 untranslated messages.
> >
> > But there is no information about the filename. It should display
> > something like:
> >
> > fr.po: 922 translated, 53 fuzzy, 47 untranslated.
> > ^^^^^
> 
> This would make the output in Emacs PO mode (where the file name is
> usually a long pathname) harder to understand.

So, perhaps not the full pathname, just the leafname, possibly without
the .po extension.

> This is inherent in the use of make's "-j" option. When you use
> "make -j" you could as well pipe stdout and stderr to /dev/null,
> because the only reproducible effects of "make -j" are 1. the side
> effects on disk, 2. the exit status of the command. You can simply
> not expect to understand "make -j" output.

I think that the output should be understandable at the line level
(as long as no flush is performed before a \n). Hence the above
feature request. :)

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