Re: Feature proposal: string extracting by RegExp for xgettext

[Bruno Haible]

Aurélio A. Heckert wrote:
> The xgettext implements the recognition of  localizable
> strings on many languages, but it can fails in some cases,
> like ib bash "gettext -s" or in new languages / frameworks.
> 
> We can have the option --extract-regexp or -re, where
> we can set the regexp to find strings to the xgettext.

You can have this functionality by piping the POT file produced by xgettext
through "msggrep -K -E -e REGEXP". Therefore an extra option on the xgettext
program is not needed.

Bruno