leo.el
This package allows you to interact with Leo.de dictionaries from within emacs.
It provides the command leo-translate-word. If no other phrase is entered, the word currently under the cursor is used. If the region is active, it is used (this also works in pdf-view-mode). It translates between German and the language set by the custom variable leo-language. The second language can also be specified interactively by invoking the commands with a prefix argument.
Results are sorted by part of speech, and display all additional information about the term such as usage, case markers, linguistic variant, etc. They also include a direct link to conjugation or inflection tables, shown as the icon ▦ (or #).
In the results buffer:
- click on a word to search for it
<tab>to a word or phrase then hit<return>to search for ittorsto search againC-u tto search again and choose your language,and.to go to the previous/next part of speech heading.fto jump to forum results- click on a part of speech heading to view more results of only that type.
<and>to limit search to source/target language.bto view results in external browser
lto browse the results in linguee.de- and
cto search the same term with dictcc.el if it's installed.
Links to forum results are also displayed. It is better to view these externally, which you can do by C-u RET with point on an entry.
If no results are returned, a list of suggestions is displayed which are also click (or tab/return) to search.
For the moment there is no functionality to return to previous result. The easiest way to do this is t for a new search, then M-p to scroll back through search history.
Available languages: en, es, fr, it, ch, pt, ru, pl.
The pairs tested while hacking on this are en < > de, plus a little fr < > de. Other languages may not work as well. The propertizing of entries isn't perfect, but it's good enough to rely on and is still being improved.
It looks like this:
other packages
You may also be interested in wordreference.el, my package for https://wordreference.com.