Re: [bug-gettext] [PATCH] msgexec, msgfilter: Implement plural support

[Ineiev]

On 05/15/2014 06:04 PM, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > Is it possible to add also a variable for "previous" msgid?
>
> Yes, it is be possible. But what would be the purpose of such variable?
> I cannot imagine any use case: strings can be in a random order, and
> string has no relation to the previous one. If you really need it, it is
> easy to implement it in the command:
> Just save MSG(FILTER|EXEC)_MSGID variable contents to a temporary file,
> and retrieve it during next run.

I think I wasn't clear, I didn't mean the previous msgid in the file,
I meant the msgid that msgmerge --previous saves when the msgstr becomes
outdated and the translation is marked "fuzzy".