Neovim Google Translate Plugin

A lightweight Neovim plugin to translate selected or entered text using the Google Translate API. Supports translating between any languages, visual mode integration, and auto-detecting the source language.

✨ Features

• Translate selected text in visual mode or manual input in normal mode
• Prompts for source and target languages (or preconfigure them)
• Works asynchronously using curl and vim.fn.jobstart
• Displays translation result using vim.notify
• Easy to configure with your API key

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🔧 Installation

Using lazy.nvim

{
  "ask-786/translate.nvim",
  config = function()
    require("translate").setup({
      key = os.getenv("GOOGLE_TRANSLATE_API_KEY"),
      translate_from = "auto",  -- Optional: default source language
      translate_to = "en",      -- Optional: default target language
    })
  end,
}

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🛠️ Setup

require("translate").setup({
  key = "YOUR_GOOGLE_TRANSLATE_API_KEY", -- or use os.getenv("...")
  translate_from = nil,  -- Optional: "fr", "ja", or "auto". If nil, you will be prompted.
  translate_to = nil,    -- Optional: "en", "de", etc. If nil, you will be prompted.
})

📖 Usage

Visual Mode

1. Select some text.

2. Run Lua command:

   :lua require("translate").translate()

Normal Mode

1. Just run:

   :lua require("translate").translate()

2. You’ll be prompted to enter text, source language, and target language.

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✅ Example

Input (in French):

Bonjour, comment allez-vous ?

Output:

Translation: Hello, how are you?

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📌 Requirements

• curl (used under the hood)

• Google Translate API key

  • You can get one from Google Cloud Console