Translating Gopher text with Chawan
Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:47:40 +0100
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I was wondering what I was  missing in LFA's spanish section of his
gopher hole, and now I know.

I downloaded translate-shell:

 wget git.io/trans 
 chmod +x ./trans

I moved trans to .local/bin  which is in my PATH,   and  added  the
following line in ~/.config/chawan/config.toml

 [page] 
 gt = 'pager.externFilterSource(`trans :en -b`, null, null)'

Now any texts in gopher holes can be translated by  hitting 'gt' in
Chawan.

 ## Lynx
 
If you are using Lynx, you can use translate-shell too:

Create the file lynx-translate-handler and make it executable:

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 #!/usr/bin/env bash

 if curl --head --silent "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1; then 
    curl -s "$1" | trans :en -b | lynx -dump -stdin -force_html 
 else 
   notify-send "Invalid URL $1" 
 fi
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add this line in ~/.config/lynx/lynx.cfg

 EXTERNAL_MENU::Translate:lynx-translate-handler %s:TRUE

To translate a page or url in lynx,  hit , or . and select from the
menu.

NOTE:
It doesn't work as well as with Chawan, perhaps an  improvement  is
possible.


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