Gregory Pietsch wrote: > Believe me, I've had a few headaches over the years regarding NLS. This > led to the myriad of ways to do NLS in Edlin. Anyway, all the strings > that would need to be translated are #defines in msgs.h, and I included > a simple filter program to generate msgs.h files from the NLS files. I > don't know if NLS was done the right way from the start (POSIX sus4, > anyone?) but you shouldn't have to put a hundred FreeDOS programmers > into a room and get 101 ways of doing NLS in a program. > > Edlin is supposed to be TINY, and I've turned into the guardian of bloat. [..]
I suppose one option is to go the ed(1) route and minimize the output it produces. But that starts to tilt dangerously into "user aggressive" territory. That said, maybe Edlin uses a bit too much text. For example, when you start Edlin, it produces this copyright message (which should be translated) > edlin 2.23, copyright (c) 2003 Gregory Pietsch > This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > It is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it > under the terms of the GNU General Public License -- either > version 2 of the license, or, at your option, any later > version. > > * ..where "*" is the prompt. Does it need to produce that much text? Or could Edlin just start with a "*" prompt? When you ask for help with "?" Edlin produces this text: > *? > > edlin has the following subcommands: > > # edit a single line [#],[#],#m move > a append [#][,#]p page > [#],[#],#,[#]c copy q quit > [#][,#]d delete [#][,#][?]r$,$ replace > e<> end (write & quit) [#][,#][?]s$ search > [#]i insert [#]t<> transfer > [#][,#]l list [#]w<> write > > where $ above is a string, <> is a filename, > # is a number (which may be .=current line, $=last line, > or either number + or - another number). I don't know if the first "edlin has the following subcommands" line needs to be there. That saves 1 line of translation, which isn't much. But every little bit, right? Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
