Re: Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> > Eli Zaretskii writes:
> >
> >  > I didn't know gettext supported message strings in comments.  Does
> >  > it?
> >
> > gettext() itself obviously doesn't, since comments aren't executable.
> > Extraction tools like xgettext should, they aren't supposed to parse
> > the text beyond the _() macro.

xgettext knows Lisp syntax.  When it is called as this:

% xgettext -L lisp --keyword=_

something like this docstring is extracted correctly.

(defun temp
  (_"Docstring of the function temp.")
  ...)

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Kenichi Handa
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