From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16909 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2009 15:33:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 16901 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jan 2009 15:33:37 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_MX,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ns1.suse.de (HELO mx1.suse.de) (195.135.220.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:33:26 +0000 Received: from Relay1.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080F9458EF; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:33:22 +0100 (CET) From: Andreas Schwab To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Pedro Alves , brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: PR7580 - Command to force abort when internal error References: <200812290335.09199.pedro@codesourcery.com> <200812291426.59784.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20081231035705.GA31595@adacore.com> <200901072159.29879.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-Yow: .. this must be what it's like to be a COLLEGE GRADUATE!! Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:33:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:25:29 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00198.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> + set_doc = xstrprintf (_("Configure what GDB does when an %s is detected."), >> + problem->name); >> + >> + show_doc = xstrprintf (_("Show what GDB does when an %s is detected."), >> + problem->name); > > I would lose the "an" part: this is general infrastructure, so even if > all the currently known problem names fit "an", we cannot guarantee > that to be so in the future. There's no need here for an article, > anyway, as something like > > Show what GDB does when FOO is detected. > > sounds perfectly correct English to me. In any case it is still impossible to properly translate, as it may depend on what FOO actually is. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."