diff --git a/locales/en-US/messages.properties b/locales/en-US/editor.properties
similarity index 100%
rename from locales/en-US/messages.properties
rename to locales/en-US/editor.properties
diff --git a/scripts/properties2js.js b/scripts/properties2js.js
index 8954b866902..a3ecb18842f 100644
--- a/scripts/properties2js.js
+++ b/scripts/properties2js.js
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ var mkdirp = Promise.promisify(require("mkdirp"));
 // Unchanging values
 var EN_US_DIR = "root";
 var L10N_DIR = "nls";
-var L10N_PROP_FILE = "messages.properties";
+var L10N_PROP_FILE = "editor.properties";
 var L10N_STR_FILE = "strings.js";
 var L10N_TEMPLATE_FILE = "strings.template";
 var LOCALE_LIST_TEMPLATE_FILE = "locale-list.template";