Quick Translate

quick-translate

By p0ly60n

A Package to quickly translate text of various languages

languages

translation

dictionary

Paste this command in a terminal to install the package

espanso install quick-translate

Description

Source

Espanso Translate-Shell Extension

This package utilizes the functionality of translate-shell to translate texts into various languages using Espanso Open-Source Text-Expander.

Installation

Before using this package, make sure you have translate-shell installed on your system. If you don't, you can install it for your OS here. Make sure to install and use WSL when using Windows.

Once you have it installed, you can install this package using the following command:

espanso install quick-translate
espanso restart

After Installing, you can change the

sourcelang

and

targetlang

variables in defaultlang.yml to your desired default languages. You can find the valid names at the bottom of package.yml. Please note that if there's an update in the future, those files could be overwritten.

Usage

::trans
: Translates the selected text to the target language (default: English)
::etrans
: Extended Translate - Translates the Text from a source language (default: German) to a target language (default: English)

package.yml

defaultlang.yml

matches:
  - trigger: "::trans"
    label: "Translate"
    replace: "{{output}}"
    vars:
      - name: "input"
        type: form
        params:
          layout: |
            Text:
            [[text]]
            Target:
            [[target]]
          fields:
            target:
              type: choice
              default: 
                "{{targetlang}}"
              values:
                "{{lang}}"
            text:
              multiline: true

      - name: "output"
        type: shell
        params:
          cmd: "trans -b -t '{{input.target}}' '{{input.text}}'"
          shell: wsl

  - trigger: "::etrans"
    label: "Extended Translate"
    replace: "{{output}}"
    vars:
      - name: "input"
        type: form
        params:
          layout: |
            Text:
            [[text]]
            Source:
            [[source]]
            Target:
            [[target]]
          fields:
            source:
              type: choice
              default: 
                "{{sourcelang}}"
              values:
                "{{lang}}"
            target:
              type: choice
              default: 
                "{{targetlang}}"
              values:
                "{{lang}}"
            text:
              multiline: true

      - name: "output"
        type: shell
        params:
          cmd: "trans -b -s '{{input.source}}' -t '{{input.target}}' '{{input.text}}'"
          shell: wsl

global_vars:
  - name: lang
    type: echo
    params:
      echo: |
        Afrikaans
        Albanian
        Amharic
        Arabic
        Armenian
        Assamese
        Aymara
        Azerbaijani
        Bambara
        Bashkir
        Basque
        Belarusian
        Bengali
        Bhojpuri
        Bosnian
        Breton
        Bulgarian
        Cantonese
        Catalan
        Cebuano
        Cherokee
        Chichewa
        Chinese (Literary)
        Chinese (Simplified)
        Chinese (Traditional)
        Chuvash
        Corsican
        Croatian
        Czech
        Danish

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