Re: an i18n sample

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>]

Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 08:41:02PM +0100, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > > Very good, thanks.
> >
> > Would you like to apply this?
>
>
> Corrected the concatenation style.

Baurjan, I really appologise here, but people should have known better 
than to request that you also make cosmetic changes such as switching 
from this:

> @@ -1583,11 +1588,13 @@ _initialize_alpha_tdep (void)
>       because the user can always use "999999" or some such for unlimited.  */
>    c = add_set_cmd ("heuristic-fence-post", class_support, var_zinteger,
>  		   (char *) &heuristic_fence_post,
> -		   "\
> -Set the distance searched for the start of a function.\n\
> -If you are debugging a stripped executable, GDB needs to search through the\n\
> -program for the start of a function.  This command sets the distance of the\n\
> -search.  The only need to set it is when debugging a stripped executable.",

to this:

> +		   _("Set the distance searched for the start of a function.\n"
> +		     "If you are debugging a stripped executable, GDB "
> +		     "needs to search through the\n"
> +		     "program for the start of a function.  This "
> +		     "command sets the distance of the\n"
> +		     "search.  The only need to set it is when "
> +		     "debugging a stripped executable."),

when only a simple markup is necessary.

The former style is used for for a clear and simple reason - it greatly 
simplifies the challenge of ensuring that the lines are <80 characters. 
 As you observed, our objective should be to make the programmers life 
easier and that means people should resist the temptation to also 
request other solely asthetic changes.

Again I apologize.

I've committed the original version of your patch with the tweak Eli 
suggested.

Andrew