Hover Translate

Hover translate is a vs code extension to translate text on hover. Currently, this plugin uses Yandex translate and requires a yandex api key which you can obtain for free (https://tech.yandex.com/translate/). Support for google translate api may be added in the future.

Features

Requirements

• A yandex api key is required to use this plugin.
  • create a key https://tech.yandex.com/translate/
  • add key to hover translate settings (Yandex Api Key)

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• hovertranslate.enableExtension: enable/disable this extension
• hovertranslate.yandexApiKey: Yandex translate api key
• hovertranslate.hideSameLangHover: Do not show tooltip if the detected language of a word is the same as your translate to
• hovertranslate.translateFrom: Language to translate text from
  • Options
    • Auto Detect Language
    • Arabic
    • German
    • English
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Russian
    • Chinese
• hovertranslate.translateTo: Language to translate text to
  • Options
    • Arabic
    • German
    • English
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Russian
    • Chinese

Note: This extension can support all language Yandex translate supports. This set was chosen for now. Submit a pr or open an issue if you want another one. (https://github.com/marclanepitt/hovertranslate)

Known Issues

• Translating entire sentences can be difficult because the extension uses spaces a delimiter. One hack to translate an entire sentence is to highlight it and then hover over the space to the right of it

Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release

• basic translate on text hover