Re: prevent inserting \n symbol in the end of lines in emacs po-mode

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 04:45:21PM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> When editing .po file in emacs po-mode and inserting two lines into
> msgstr, emacs adds "n" symbol.
>
> And it breaks the logic here:
> 
> #. type: Plain text
> #: doc/contributing.texi:141
> msgid ""
> "@dots{} and for a REPL (@pxref{Using Guile Interactively,,, guile, Guile "
> "Reference Manual}):"
> msgstr ""
> "@dots{} и для REPL (@pxref{Using Guile Interactively,,, guile, Guilen"
> "Reference Manual}):"
> 
> http://0x0.st/zNAS.png (http://0x0.st/zNAS.png)
> 
> I think link to Guile Reference manual will not work with n in the
> middle of it.
> 

This \n is printed in place of a newline character.  I believe you
have wrapped the paragraph to multiple lines when it must be on a
single line.  Normally I press Ctrl+J to copy the original msgid and
adapt it without adding newlines.



> I've enabled long-line-mode as described here
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PoMode
> (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PoMode) (and including longlines.el
> into .emacs)
>
> So I can create long-long lines and they are displaying convenient
> way. And I've compared french translation does not follow the same
> line length rule as in original po file: http://0x0.st/zNmQ.png
>

When you open the French PO file and start editing the msgstr in
emacs’ po-mode, you will see it has no line wrapping any more.  The
paragraph that was a single line must be on a single line when editing
it in emacs’ po-mode.



> But nevertheless is it necessary to insert translation messages
> strings with line breaks but without emacs insert 'n' in the end of
> line?



I do not know emacs well enough.  Maybe there is a way to print long
lines more nicely, but I just go with an ugly long line.  A single
line must remain a single line for the po-mode logic.

Regards,
Florian