Claus Färber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith schrieb/wrote: > > Claus Färber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It can be a seperate XML (or whatever) file that's only read by the > >> software. > > > But that's not what he meant! Please don't change what he said to fit > > your view. > > That's your interpretation of what he said. Please don't interpret what > he said to fit your view.
Yeah, right. > > That would be a major inconvenience to do in elisp instead of > > simply insert the text in the code. > > Which is a bad programming practice as it makes translations harder. 1- Bad programming practice or not, it's true. 2- Then file a huge bug with Emacs, because that's how they do it. > Further, texts so smalled can hardly be based on full-text documentation > but have to be re-written anyway. They are probably trivial enough not > to be copyrightable anyway. Not true. I've copied hundreds of line from www.debian.org into debian-bug.el for one. In the MH-E project, we routinely copy doc strings into the manual, re-work them and copy them back modified into the code. Peter
