Re: Summary (Re: A system for localizing documentation strings)

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev:

> > I wonder if it is larger than gcc.  Gcc 4.2.0 has 6489 strings for
> > translation.
>
> I just tried this command in the top-level Emacs directory:
>
>   grep -hR -A1 "^(def" lisp --include="*.el" | grep -v "^--" | grep "^  \""
>
> and got 30594 lines of output.  And this is only the doc strings;
> there are built-ins defined in C, prompts, literal `(message FOO)'
> messages, calls to `signal' and `error', etc.
>
> So yes, Emacs is _definitely_ larger than GCC.  Much larger, almost by
> an order of magnitude.

Thanks for the data.  This might be a problem in itself.  I don't kow how 
large a gettext compiled file can be with reasonable performance.

        Jan D.