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MITRA Emacs Extensions

Emacs Extensions

Dharmamitra Emacs Extension

The Dharmamitra Emacs Extension brings the power of Dharmamitra's translation and analysis tools directly into the Emacs environment.

Screenshot of Dharmamitra grammar analysis

Features

  • Grammar analysis for Sanskrit
  • English translations for Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Pali
  • Segmentation and lemmatization
  • Detailed grammatical analysis with meanings

Installation

  1. Download dharmamitra.el from the repository.
  2. Add the following to your .emacs or init.el:
;; Add the directory containing dharmamitra.el to load-path
(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/directory/containing/dharmamitra")
(require 'dharmamitra)

Configuration

Translation Settings

By default, translations are included in the analysis output. To disable translations (which makes the system significantly faster), add this to your .emacs:

(setq dharmamitra-text-include-translation nil)

To re-enable translations:

(setq dharmamitra-text-include-translation t)
Key Bindings

In order to enable the key binding, add this to your .emacs:

;; Bind to a different key globally
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g") #'dharmamitra-text-analyze-grammar)

;; Or bind for specific modes
(add-hook 'sanskrit-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (local-set-key (kbd "C-c g") #'dharmamitra-text-analyze-grammar)))

Usage

  1. Select the text you want to analyze.
  2. Press C-c g (or your custom keybinding).
  3. The analysis will appear in a separate buffer showing:
    • Original text
    • Segmented form
    • Lemmatized form
    • Translation (if enabled)
    • Detailed grammatical analysis

The analysis buffer will be named *Dharmamitra Text Grammar*.

Requirements

  • Emacs 26.1 or later
  • curl (for API requests)
  • Internet connection to access dharmamitra.org

MITRA Search for Emacs

dharmamitra-search.el lets you highlight any text in any buffer, hit a single key, and instantly browse cross-lingual search results (Sanskrit · Tibetan · Chinese · Pāli) returned by Dharmamitra's semantic-search API. This brings most of the functionality of MITRA Search directly into the emacs editor and allows to search the entire DharmaNexus corpus comfortably.

Dharmamitra Search Demo

(screenshot: mark text → C-c C-d → clickable results window)

⏳ Installation

Manual Installation

If you don’t use a package manager like straight.el, you can install dharmamitra-search.el manually in just a few steps:

  1. Download the file
    Clone the repository or download dharmamitra-search.el directly and place it in a directory of your choice, for example ~/.emacs.d/lisp/.

  2. Add it to your load path
    In your .emacs or init.el file:
    emacs-lisp (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/") (require 'dharmamitra-search)

  3. Bind the search command to a key
    You can customize this as you like. For example:
    emacs-lisp (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-d") #'dharmamitra-search-region)
  4. Optional: Customize settings
    Run M-x customize-group RET dharmamitra-search RET to adjust the API endpoint or appearance.
straight.el / use-package
(use-package dharmamitra-search
  :straight (dharmamitra-search
             :type git
             :host github
             :repo "https://github.com/dharmamitra/dharmamitra-search-emacs")
  :bind ("C-c C-d" . dharmamitra-search-region))