translations of bash, the po files

2006-11-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, It seems that bash has never used the translations that were made at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/registry.cgi?domain=bash . At the moment Spanish and Turkish are completely up to date, and Estonian is halfway -- will these translations make it into the tarball for bash-3.3?

Re: translations of bash, the po files

2006-11-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chet Ramey wrote: I will probably not make a bash-3.3 release, but may release the new translations in a single package before bash-4.0 comes out. As a separate package? Hmm, strange, but okay. If any of the strings change between 3.2 and 4.0, though, please make 4.0-pre release several

gettextizing a few skipped messages [patch]

2006-11-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, While translating bash's messages, I noticed that some messages haven't been gettextized. Attached patch fixes these -- just the ones I happened to notice, I haven't done a full inspection. The first patch also fixes a typo, and changes a trailing space to a leading one (preferred by

direct crossreferences for 'shopt'

2006-12-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, When doing 'info bash' and Enter, followed by '/shopt' and twice Enter, one ends up in the middle of the description of 'declare', instead of at the top of the page. Apparently texinfo contains a bug: when a node contains a reference to itself, any reference jumps to that reference

gettextizing more skipped messages [patch]

2006-12-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Attached patch gettextizes a bunch of strings that were found uninternationalized while skimming through all the *.def and *.c files. The second patch does this also for siglist.c file. The third patch removes the duplication of the command name from the output of 'help', as this duplication

Re: help text per column instead of per row [patch]

2006-12-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Attached patch prints the builtin commands alphabetically per column and uses a total width of 80 characters. Here is a better patch. It also puts a in the last column position of the strings that are longer than the available width. To find the width of the current

Re: one last collating sequence data point

2007-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chet Ramey wrote: Bruce Korb wrote: $ unset LC_COLLATE If LC_COLLATE is unset, LC_ALL and LANG both affect the collating order. Aha! So that is where the apparent system default locale comes from. $ locale | grep COLL LC_COLLATE=POSIX $ unset LC_COLLATE $ locale | grep COLL

Re: aiuto!

2007-02-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
manuel targa wrote: Qual`e' il comando che mi permette di sapere in che directory mi trovo??? pwd Aŭ uzu: export PS1='\[\e[001;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\e[001;034m\]\w \$\[\e[000m\]' por ĉiam vidi kie vi estas. Benno ___ Bug-bash mailing list

Re: Another bash-3.2 regression: coloured prompt confuses Ctrl+R.

2007-04-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chet Ramey wrote: I apparently fixed it while making a seemingly unrelated change a couple of weeks ago. Try this patch. First hunk fails against p15. When adjusting the patch for that (see attached), it solves the problem here. Thanks. Benno --- lib/readline/display.c.orig 2007-04-11

Re: set function and special builtin set

2007-05-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Clive Nicolson wrote: Is it posible to get a user function named set to be called in place of the special builtin set? ie set() { echo My set $@ ;} set params You haven't tried this? $ set() { echo My set $@ ;} $ set params My set params It just works. Also read the output of 'help

Re: set function and special builtin set

2007-05-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Paul Jarc wrote: Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Schwab wrote: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_ch ap02.html#tag_02_09_01_01: If a simple command results in a command name and an optional list of arguments, [...] But set

Re: Improper UTF-8 combining character handling

2007-06-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Sean Burke wrote: The Unicode normalization test data at http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NormalizationTest.txt contains many sequences of this sort. The first chara cter sequence, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH DOT ABOVE, does produce this problem. Paste it into the

Re: Composed characters + colour = strange cursor behaviour

2007-06-26 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Tristan Miller wrote: Bash Version: 3.2 Patch Level: 9 Please try again with patch level 17. Patch 16 or 17 addresses multibyte characters. Repeat-By: 1. PS1=\w\[\033[0m\] 2. mkdir n̈ (Note that the above is U+006E U+0308) 3. cd n̈ (At this point you will

Re: Composed characters + colour = strange cursor behaviour

2007-06-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Tristan Miller wrote: However, there still seems to be a problem when multibyte characters appear in the prompt in the last column of the terminal window. Specifically, when the last character in a line is multibyte, it is sometimes printed as ��. I initially thought that this was a terminal

Re: bash strangeness with utf-8

2007-07-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Joe Peterson wrote: when using LAN=en_US.UTF-8 (anf we've verified same on en_GB.UTF-8). Apart from LANG=en_US.UTF-8, what is the rest of your locale? There are two cases I came up with. If you up-arrow through your history, hit right-arrow (i.e. going past the end - even though the cursor

Re: bash strangeness with utf-8

2007-07-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Giraud wrote: Hmm, interesting. Please don't top-post. Yes, I do have PROMPT_COMMAND set, it appears. However, if I unset it (and even also 'export PS1=foo ' to set PS1 to a simple string), the problem remains. Then look at a new typescript, and see if that strange 1034h is still there.

Re: ctrl+r + left cursor + multiline PS1 = wrong cursor displaying

2007-07-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Xuefer wrote: Bash Version: 3.2 Patch Level: 15 expected: cursor moves in the range of echo abc, and the[n] beyond c actually: cursor moves in the range of $ echo ab (including b) Please try again with patch level 17. With bash-3.2.17 I cannot reproduce that behaviour here. Repeat-By:

problematic \r in msgid

2007-11-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, In the POT file for bash-3.2 there is one msgid that contains two \r characters. Are these carriage returns necessary? If not, it would be better to remove them, as they are awkward for translators and are causing a mild indigestion on Launchpad at the moment (which is Launchpad's

[patch] a better description of \c

2008-08-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, The help text for echo describes the effect of the backslash escape \c like this: $ help echo | grep '\\c' \c suppress trailing newline But what it actually does is different: $ echo -e before \c after \a before $ It cancels all characters that come after it. The printf

builtin printf ignores straight '\c'

2008-08-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, Bash's printf appears to ignore the \c backslash escape: $ printf before \c after \a before \c after $ $ type printf printf is a shell builtin Of course the Open Group's description of printf (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/utilities/printf.html) does not specify that \c in

when last output lacks \n, bash gets confused about cursor position

2008-08-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, When using 'echo -n' or printf without a final \n, and then using the Up and Down keys to walk through previous commands, bash can get confused about its cursor position (or rather its prompt position) and either leave some stray text in the middle of the line, or overwrite part of its

Re: Bash git repository on savannah

2011-11-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chet Ramey wrote: I'm thinking about fairly frequent commits to a `bash-devel' sort of tree. The question is whether or not enough people would be interested in that to make the frequency worth it. Anyone wanting to propose a patch would like to prepare it against the most recent state of

[patches] removing empty sections and adding consistent blank lines

2015-10-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
f1b2ff178cd4a743a12c1cf928a94b5be8ffcec8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg <bensb...@justemail.net> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:03:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] CHANGES-4.4: remove an empty section 4, and pluralize "Change" Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensb...@justemail.net> -

a few unintended translations of command names

2015-10-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, In bash-4.4-beta the command names 'true' and 'false' have been mistakenly translated in the Greek, Italian, Slovak and Indonesian PO files. The latter two also mistakenly translate 'times'. As the command synopses are gettextized only in order to allow translators to translate possible

inconsistent synopses in help output

2015-10-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
In the output of the 'help' command in any bash upto and including 4.4-beta, the possible arguments in most of the commands listed are shown in lowercase, but for some they are in uppercase. Examples: alias [-p] [name[=value] ... ] break [n] case WORD in [PATTERN [| PATTERN]...) COMMANDS

Re: [Nano-devel] How to lock a terminal

2016-02-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016, at 11:19, Bob Proulx wrote: > [...] this is the perfect case for job control. No need for a > second terminal. Here is an example. Use Control-Z to stop the > foreground job. For that to work, it requires having 'set suspend' in your nanorc. (Which I don't have, because

Re: [Nano-devel] How to lock a terminal

2016-02-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016, at 04:11, Bob Proulx wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > For that to work, it requires having 'set suspend' in your > > nanorc. (Which I don't have, because it annoys me when nano > > drops into the background when I accidentally hit ^Z.) > >

Re: Bash-5.1 release available

2020-12-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hello Chet, > The first public release of bash-5.1 is now available with the URLs > > ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-5.1.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-5.1.tar.gz It would be nice if the Translation Project would get a CC for the rc1 or rc2 release of bash, not for the final

Re: Bash-5.1 release available

2020-12-08 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Op 07-12-2020 om 20:39 schreef Chet Ramey: > On 12/7/20 1:47 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> It would be nice if the Translation Project would get a CC for >> the rc1 or rc2 release of bash, not for the final release. > > I copied coordina...@translationproject.org for &g

Re: Bash-5.1 release available

2020-12-08 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Op 08-12-2020 om 15:12 schreef Chet Ramey: > On 12/8/20 6:18 AM, Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> Yes, but for translators that is too far back -- too much time passes >> before the actual release happens. > > That doesn't make any sense. If there are any changed strings, the