Re: little suggestion for xgettext

[Bruno Haible]

William J Poser wrote:
> When I work on a translation, it drives me crazy that the translation
> is not aligned with the msgid. I find myself constantly aligning them,
> which causes additional errors when I put the space inside the
> string to be translated or delete a quote or something. So I've patched
> xgettext to add a space after "msgid" so that the string aligns with
> the one following "msgstr".

Thanks for the patch. But only the PO file editors of the first generation
display a PO file as-is, with "msgid" and "msgstr" markers. Nowadays you
have much better PO file editors, such as KBabel, that not only provide
added functionality like compendia and spell checking but also hide the
technical structure of the PO file.

Bruno