REP-XGETTEXT(1)

🦋 rep-xgettext — gettext but make it Lisp 💅

okay bestie, so this is a manual page for the section 1 command rep-xgettext, and it's literally about pulling your i18n strings out of Lisp scripts. it's giving translator-friendly, it's giving .pot files, we love to see it. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

rep-xgettext — extract i18n strings from lisp scripts. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rep-xgettext [ --include DEFINER ] [ --c  ] [ --pot  ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea, bestie. 🫖 the usual method of constructing message catalogue templates (.pot files) is to run xgettext on the C source files of the program — the ones that have been annotated for i18n, yk? and librep provides the rep-xgettext program to perform the same task for files of Lisp code. 😌 no cap, same energy, different language. Lisp girlies get i18n too. periodt. 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --include — include DEFINER. heads up though: this is not documented by upstream. 🙈 so like, it's there, it does a thing, and honestly that's all we're legally allowed to say about it. mystery icon behaviour, lowkey.
• --c — this makes it output pseudo C code containing the string constants found. 🧚 so it's C-coded but make it fake, iykyk.
• --pot — this makes it output in standart .pot file. 💖 the classic. the main character format.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the programs are documented fully by John Harper available via the Info system. 📖 go read the source of truth, bestie, it's right there.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🫶 iconic of him honestly.

💀 one more thing: this whole thing is dated 04 avril 2003, and it's the REP-XGETTEXT(1) page from back in the day. shoutout to 2003, she ate. 🎀✨🌸

k byeeee, go extract those strings 💖