Subject: bug#34520: delete-matching-lines should report how many lines it deleted

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2019 15:39:37 -0800 (PST)

> >   > Ok, waiting for the times when ‘gettext’ will arrive to Emacs.
> >
> > It would be very desirable to make Emacs support gettext-style
> > translations.  I have a feeling that it can't use the same
> > code as gettext -- but with all of Emacs's other facilities,
> > I think that transposing the useful part of gettext into
> > Emacs won't be a big job.
> >
> > Would someone like to do this?
> 
> Emacs can do much better job of text translation than gettext.
> 
> It's easy to translate text transparently to the caller,
> i.e. without changing the caller code at all, by adding
> a new intermediate layer to some text output functions
> that will translate their string arguments to the
> language of the default language environment.

Is this bug thread really the place for such a discussion?
Don't you want to create a dedicated emacs-devel discussion
for this instead (restarting from the beginning)?