Re: google-translate (was: Re: Is it possible to transform text before feeding it to ispell?)

[Andrey Tykhonov <atykhonov@gmail.com>]

Hi Emanuel,

On 9 September 2015 at 01:40, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > i don't know about ready-made solutions for this,
> > but perhaps something could be built around the
> > `google-translate` package that's available from
> > MELPA and Marmalade?
>
> I have used that from the shell for some time but for
> whatever reason it stopped working recently, so thank
> you for this. I had to write this -
>
> (require 'w3m-unisearch)
>
> (defun swedish-to-english (&optional text)
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((text (get-search-string "ord")))
>     (google-translate-translate "Swedish" "English" text 'kill-ring)
>     (let ((translation (string-make-unibyte (current-kill 0 t))))
>       (message "%s: %s" text translation) )))
>
> (defalias 'sv 'swedish-to-english)
>
> - to get the DWIM region/word-at-point/just-type
> interface I also have for w3m Google searches (and
> more); for the above to work, get it here:
>
>     http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/w3m/w3m-unisearch.el
>
> But it seems I found a bug already. Try this line:
>
>     (google-translate-translate "Swedish" "English" "i")
>
> It gives an error, even tho such short words are
> common in many languages and are likely to be
> translated now and then.
>


Thank you for the bug report! I'll fix it as soon as possible!


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