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Re: Show HN: Pollly – Editor for YAML localization and translation files

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Can you explain what it's for? I'm familiar with YAML but I have no idea what "translate apps & sites" means. Do you mean "translate" as in i18n? What kind of files would I be uploading?

I believe it's Rails translation files which looked like this:

en.yml: https://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/blob/d14fe4e0a1c54d2...

fr.yml: https://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/blob/d14fe4e0a1c54d2...

In this case, I understand the need of the editor because managing large translation files by hand is a very time consuming task and overall painful experience. From going back and forth between trying to match translation files key-by-key (nope, pluralization rules differ from languages to languages) or trying to find the correct key to edit, to fixing merge conflicts.

Re: Show HN: Pollly – Editor for YAML localization and translation files

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Just tried it. This is absolutely not a YAML editor. It doesn't even let you edit a single file. Very odd application, no idea what the goal is but it's certainly not editing YAML.

Yes. They seem to mean "Rails-style translation files that happen to be in YAML format" when they say "YAML".

Re: Show HN: Pollly – Editor for YAML localization and translation files

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Just tried it. This is absolutely not a YAML editor. It doesn't even let you edit a single file. Very odd application, no idea what the goal is but it's certainly not editing YAML.

Yes. They seem to mean "Rails-style translation files that happen to be in YAML format" when they say "YAML".

I saw the title, "Simple, free, YML editor" and tried to use it for one of my ansible yml files. It doesn't even accept it. It wants two files to be uploaded which doesn't even make sense. So, it's not a YML editor and the title is wrong. Perhaps it should be changed to "Rails translation file editor, which happens to use the YML format"
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