" Vim script to cleanup a .po file: " - Remove line numbers (avoids that diffs are messy). " - Comment-out fuzzy and empty messages. " - Make sure there is a space before the string (required for Solaris). " Requires Vim 6.0 or later (because of multi-line search patterns). " Disable diff mode, because it makes this very slow let s:was_diff = &diff setl nodiff silent g/^#: /d silent g/^#, fuzzy\(, .*\)\=\nmsgid ""\@!/.+1,/^$/-1s/^/#\~ / silent g/^msgstr"/s//msgstr "/ silent g/^msgid"/s//msgid "/ silent g/^msgstr ""\(\n"\)\@!/?^msgid?,.s/^/#\~ / if s:was_diff setl diff endif