Re: [Evolution] Comparison of Evolution to Thunderbird

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:27:12 +0200, Mark Elkins wrote:
> The primary reason is that I am getting a fair number of messages in
> French and my French is not good. Up until now, I have been
> copy'n'pasting the messages into translate.google.com - which is a bit
> clumsy and means changing screens - etc. Now, I highlight the French
> Text and click translate. This saves me time.

Perhaps the filter option "Pipe to Program" or the plugin "External
Editor" could help to use a script similar to
http://hackerspace.kinja.com/highlight-and-google-translate-any-text-in-linux-1648824665 [1] ,
not necessarily by using a notification thingy.
Perhaps an external editor already provides it, so you even might not
need a script. I suspect nearly all Linux MUAs, if not all, allow to
use, resp. include external programs or scripts. Regarding this I'm not
familiar with Evolution. However, at least Claws and Evolution provide
it, but I can't explain what exactly you need to do.

[1]
#!/usr/bin/env bash

notify-send -u critical "$(xsel -o)" "$(wget -U "Mozilla/5.0" -qO - 
"http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=$(xsel -o | sed "s/[\"'<>]//g")&sl=auto&tl=eng" | 
sed 's/\[\[\[\"//' | cut -d \" -f 1)"