Dictionary and spell check

When you translate a single word, tagent-cli shows a dictionary entry instead of a bare translation: the word’s translations grouped by part of speech, each with its synonyms.

[auto → ru]: translate
[Word]: переводить
Глагол
  переводить [transfer, translate, convert, move, interpret, put]
  транслировать [translate, transmit, relay, compile]
  преобразовывать [translate, reform, reorganize, transfashion, reorganise]

• The first line is the main translation.
• The parts of speech (Глагол, “verb”) are named in the target language for English, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese, in English otherwise.
• The words in brackets are synonyms in the source language: other words that have this meaning.

A phrase, or a word the dictionary doesn’t know, gets a plain translation.

Spell check

With spell_check on, a misspelled word is looked up under its correct spelling, and a notice in the target language says which word was used:

[en → ru]: vialent
Показан перевод слова violent
[Word]: яростный
Прилагательное
  насильственный [violent, forcible]
  ...

Both small typos (violnt) and heavier ones (vialent) are caught, as far as the dictionary provider can tell.

Settings

[dictionary]
show_dictionary = true        # false: always a plain translation
spell_check = true            # false: no correction, no notice
dictionary_provider = "google"

The dictionary has its own provider, independent of the translation provider: google (the default) or an OpenAI-compatible profile. /p d <name> switches it for the session. A dictionary provider that can’t be used (a typo in its name, a missing option) never stops translation: tagent-cli warns once and translates words plainly.

The colors of the entry are set in Colors. The clipboard and the history file always get the entry as plain text.