Translate-mode

Translate-mode

[Andrea Crotti]

I would really love to have something like the google translate page but
inside emacs.

The idea is simple, two buffers, one I write and the other is
automatically updated with the translation from and to the languages I
want (using babel.el).

So I think I should remap the command keys that input a space (or tab or
newline) to make them trigger the updating of the second buffer.

How do I make such a keyboard mapping? Still a sparse key with a regular
expression?
Or other ways?

And what's the best way to manage the other buffer, just
with-temp-buffer and keeping read-only and without focus?

Thanks everyone, I hope that it will also be useful for someone else maybe...

Re: Translate-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would really love to have something like the google translate page but
> inside emacs.
>
> The idea is simple, two buffers, one I write and the other is
> automatically updated with the translation from and to the languages I
> want (using babel.el).
>
> So I think I should remap the command keys that input a space (or tab or
> newline) to make them trigger the updating of the second buffer.
>
> How do I make such a keyboard mapping? Still a sparse key with a regular
> expression?
> Or other ways?
>
> And what's the best way to manage the other buffer, just
> with-temp-buffer and keeping read-only and without focus?
>
> Thanks everyone, I hope that it will also be useful for someone else maybe...

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TextTranslator

But I do not believe in doing the translation on each space char...

Re: Translate-mode

[Andrea Crotti]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TextTranslator
>
> But I do not believe in doing the translation on each space char...

I think is not exactly what I was looking for, what I would really love
is as I said something auto-updating, not much for real translation of
course but for experimentation.

Even better would be to also have another buffer below which gives the
dictionary definition of the word (even monolingual).
For example I write in X my text in German, I see in y the translation
and in z the definition of every word.

Is something like that doable also?
Any advice on what to use (a minor/major mode, how to map the keyboard etc...)?

| x  | y |
|--------|
|    z   |

Re: Translate-mode

[Glauber Alex Dias Prado]

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TextTranslator
>>
>> But I do not believe in doing the translation on each space char...
>
> I think is not exactly what I was looking for, what I would really love
> is as I said something auto-updating, not much for real translation of
> course but for experimentation.
>
> Even better would be to also have another buffer below which gives the
> dictionary definition of the word (even monolingual).
> For example I write in X my text in German, I see in y the translation
> and in z the definition of every word.
>
> Is something like that doable also?
> Any advice on what to use (a minor/major mode, how to map the keyboard etc...)?
>
> | x  | y |
> |--------|
> |    z   |

I guess you want an asynchronous update of the translated buffer called
on post-command-hook and checking for a space getting the thing at point
every-time to translate, if you want to use google service this is a
nice lib:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TextTranslator
about minor/major mode i think you will need both but im not a
experienced elisp programmer, minor for the buffer to be translated and
major for the translated content buffer. If i was you i would
concentrate on translation first as the definitions are not that simple
in any language except english i think. 

HTH,
glauber.