patch 8.2.1544: cannot translate messages in a Vim script Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/0b39c3fd4c5d1c8ebd2efa85fced7df5e17efd3b Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Aug 30 15:52:10 2020 +0200 patch 8.2.1544: cannot translate messages in a Vim script Problem: Cannot translate messages in a Vim script. Solution: Add gettext(). Try it out for a few messages in the options window.

" Invoked with the name "vim.pot" and a list of Vim script names.
" Converts them to a .js file, stripping comments, so that xgettext works.

set shortmess+=A

for name in argv()[1:]
  let jsname = fnamemodify(name, ":t:r") .. ".js"
  exe "%s+" .. jsname .. "+" .. name .. "+"
endfor

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