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| author | mousebot <mousebot@riseup.net> | 2022-03-14 21:55:22 +0100 |
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| committer | mousebot <mousebot@riseup.net> | 2022-03-14 21:58:07 +0100 |
| commit | 722fe98364621673c06b48a2ee3ccbc25cf0fcc4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9eb272701e96110d33d18051bf1870a07738cd2e | |
| parent | 262da506ae52c619ce76b83488920cf4ae4b8b1b (diff) | |
readme on translating toots, etc
| -rw-r--r-- | README.org | 21 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -67,9 +67,26 @@ Works for federated, local, and home timelines and for notifications. It's prett To enable, it, add =(require 'mastodon-async)= to your =init.el=. Then you can view a timeline with one of the commands that begin with =mastodon-async--stream-=. +** translating toots + +You can translate toots with =mastodon-toot--translate-toot-text=. At the moment this requires [[https://codeberg.org/martianh/lingva.el][lingva.el]], a little interface I wrote to https://lingva.ml, to be installed to work. + +You could easily modify the simple function to use your emacs translator of choice (=google-translate=, =babel=, =go-translate=, etc.), you just need to fetch the toot's content with =(mastodon-tl--content toot)= and pass it to your translator function as its text argument. Here's what =mastodon-toot--translate-toot-text= looks like: + +#+begin_src emacs-lisp + (defun mastodon-toot--translate-toot-text () + "Translate text of toot at point. + Uses `lingva.el'." + (interactive) + (let* ((toot (mastodon-tl--property 'toot-json))) + (if toot + (lingva-translate nil (mastodon-tl--content toot)) + (message "No toot to translate?")))) +#+end_src + ** NB: dependency -This version depends on the library =request= (for uploading attachments). You can install it from MELPA, or https://github.com/tkf/emacs-request. +This version depends on the library =request= (for uploading attachments). If you installed =mastodon.el= from MELPA, it should be fine, else you can install it yourself from MELPA or https://github.com/tkf/emacs-request. ** NB: bugs @@ -83,7 +100,7 @@ It looks like 2-factor auth was never completed in the original repo. It's not a ** contributing -Contributions are welcome. Registration is disabled by default on the gitea instance, but if you are interested, get in touch with me on mastodon: +Contributions are welcome. Feel free to open an issue or get in touch with me on mastodon: [[https://todon.nl/@mousebot][@mousebot@todon.nl]] |