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| author | Luke Shumaker <LukeShu@sbcglobal.net> | 2013-11-04 11:31:08 -0500 |
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| committer | Luke Shumaker <LukeShu@sbcglobal.net> | 2013-11-04 11:31:08 -0500 |
| commit | 33715e2d293ebb16b388167085b15647f90b720a (patch) | |
| tree | bb6226b050d61838473ffc6b394679d6dccd1d4c /src | |
| parent | 6a395c595a1aff501f5edc6b726e929476331b56 (diff) | |
libremessages(1): clarify when gettext is used.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/lib/libremessages.1.ronn | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/libremessages.1.ronn b/src/lib/libremessages.1.ronn index 970b950..b91a958 100644 --- a/src/lib/libremessages.1.ronn +++ b/src/lib/libremessages.1.ronn @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ the command `help printf` from a Bash shell for more information. ### GENERAL ROUTINES +Unless otherwise noted, these do not implicitly call `gettext`. + * `_` <MESSAGE>: If `gettext` is available, calls `gettext`, otherwise just prints the arguments given. @@ -61,7 +63,7 @@ the command `help printf` from a Bash shell for more information. * `panic`: For the times when you can't reasonably continue, similar to - "assert" in some languages. + "assert" in some programming languages. * `term_title` <MESSAGE>...: Joins all arguments with whitespace, and sets the terminal title @@ -72,6 +74,8 @@ the command `help printf` from a Bash shell for more information. These routines print to standard output, ande are useful for printing word-wrapped prose. +For each of these, <MESSAGE> is fed through `gettext` automatically. + * `print` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]: Like `printf`(1), but `gettext`-aware, and automatically prints a trailing newline. @@ -102,6 +106,8 @@ These routines print to standard error, and all take arguments in the same format as `printf`(1), except for `stat_done`, which doesn't take any arguments. +For each of these, <MESSAGE> is fed through `gettext` automatically. + * `plain` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]: Prints "plain" message in bold, indented with 4 spaces. |