Machine Translation
Machine translation is delivered by the QuickTrans Popup – an always-on-top popup window with translations from every enabled provider, summoned independently of the SuperLookup tab. See QuickTrans Popup for the full reference.
Opening QuickTrans
Ctrl+Alt+Q (⌘⌥Q on macOS)
Opens the QuickTrans always-on-top popup and starts the MT fan-out immediately on the selected text. Auto-copies the current selection so you don't need a separate Ctrl+C first.
Ctrl+M
Same popup, but uses the current Workbench grid-cell text (no selection needed).
Editor right-click → ⚡ QuickTrans
Right-click menu in the editor.
🔍 Run in SuperLookup button in the popup header
After you've seen the QuickTrans results, click 🔍 to hand the same query off to Workbench's SuperLookup tab for a richer concordance / termbase / web look-up.
Providers
QuickTrans supports these MT providers (subject to your API keys and per-provider on/off flags):
DeepL
Google Translate
Microsoft Translator
Amazon Translate
ModernMT
MyMemory (free)
Plus optional LLM-based "translation as suggestion" from Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, and a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint or local Ollama model.
Configure providers
QuickTrans's provider list and LLM model selectors live in Workbench Settings → ⚡ QuickTrans. Click the ⚙ cog icon in the QuickTrans popup header to jump there in one click.
Per-provider on/off + LLM model choices persist in general_settings.json under mt_quick_lookup.
Language behaviour
QuickTrans uses the active project's language pair by default.
The popup has its own From / To dropdowns – override per-query without affecting your project settings.
Performance
Provider calls run in parallel (each with a 5 s timeout, overall batch capped at 6 s) so total wall-clock is roughly the slowest single provider, not the sum. Results appear in the popup as they arrive – the first to finish is auto-selected so you can hit Enter without waiting for the slow providers.
Copying results
Successful results show a 📋 copy button.
You can also double-click a result row to copy the translation.
Number keys 1–9 select the corresponding result (1 = first, 2 = second, etc.).
:::note If a provider call fails, QuickTrans shows the error message in red. Failed providers don't block the others. :::
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