convert entire line

[kobygold]

It would be great if the app could convert the entire written line, and not just the last word.
(could be an option in settings: "convert last word / convert entire line", or a different keyboard shortcut)

I know this is possible if you select the text you want to convert, but many times I'm typing in the terminal (ClaudeCode etc.) and selecting the entire line in terminal requires using the mouse, which makes this flow much less convenient... Even if not on terminal, selecting the entire line requires an additional step of selection, which in many cases is needed (you start typing, and only after several words you check the screen and see you've typed at the wrong language...).

I saw this option on "Smart Language Switcher" app:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smart-language-switcher/id1597566195?mt=12
It converts the entire line.
But that's not an open source app, and after 1 day of trial it stops working unless you buy a subscription.
(That's the reason I uninstalled their app and found your app :) )

[rashn]

@kobygold Thanks for the suggestion — it's now in the beta.

New option in Settings → Advanced → “Trigger converts the whole line”. When enabled, the trigger selects the current line up to the cursor and converts it — no mouse selection needed, which is exactly the terminal case you described (Claude Code etc.). It runs through the smart conversion, so it fixes only the words typed in the wrong layout and leaves already-correct text untouched.

To try it:

1. Settings → Advanced → enable “Get beta versions”.
2. “Check for updates” → install the beta (3.2.0e).
3. Settings → Advanced → enable “Trigger converts the whole line”.

One note: in some terminals the “select to line start” keystroke behaves differently, so I'd really appreciate your feedback on how it works in Claude Code / your terminal specifically. Thanks!

[kobygold]

Thanks @rashn, that was quick!
However it doesn't work in my terminal...

I mostly use iTerm2 terminal (which is more advanced that the built-in Mac terminal), and in this terminal the conversion doesn't do anything.
I also tried the built-in Mac terminal, and there I saw the conversion is trying to do something, but the text is not changing, and instead I'm getting few strange characters at the begining and at the end of the line (see screenshot).

Another thing, does it necessarily have to be used with the "Automatic Conversion"?
I don't like the auto conversion so much, because if i start typing something that starts with a short word, like "my name is...", but in Hebrew, the "my" word is too short to be converted, and thus I'm getting that only "name is" is being converted correctly, and "my" is kept in Hebrew (see screenshot). I guess that's some of the reasons it's still in beta/optional.

[rashn]

@kobygold Update — terminal support is in. «Convert whole line» now works inside terminals (iTerm2, Terminal.app, Claude Code): instead of selecting, RuSwitcher retypes the line from its own keystroke buffer, so the stray-characters problem is gone. It converts the line you just typed, uninterrupted — if you move the cursor or type punctuation mid-line, the buffer resets and it falls back to converting the last word.

It's in beta 3.2.0f: Settings → Advanced → «Get beta versions» → «Check for updates», then turn on «Trigger converts the whole line».

As before, this runs on the manual trigger — no need to enable Automatic Conversion. And Hebrew is still experimental here, so your feedback on how it feels in Claude Code would be really valuable. Thanks again for the detailed reports!

[rashn]

@kobygold Great catch — that's fixed in beta 3.2.0g. Cause: Hebrew has no letter case, so for those keys the shifted and unshifted characters are identical, and the converter was picking the uppercase English variant — hence a/k/u → A/K/U. Now the lowercase mapping wins, so the whole alphabet converts in lowercase.

Update (Check for updates) and give it another go. And great to hear the terminal path works now! Thanks for the precise repro — really helpful, especially since Hebrew isn't battle-tested here yet.

[kobygold]

Thanks man!
Sorry for the late response, I expected the response to appear below my latest response below, but it appeared above, so I missed it :)
The app works great now!
I noticed some small issue when working in iTerm2: when converting English to Hebrew, the Hebrew is written as LTR instead of RTL. It happens only on iTerm2, not on MacOs native terminal, nor or any other app I tried... I'm not sure if this is related to your app
or to iTerm2... If you have any idea why it happens and can fix it that would be great, if not, I'm not sure it is that critical.

BTW, I saw you created a Windows version on another thread, that's awesome! Can you create this latest version for windows, and I'll help you beta test it on windows?

[kobygold]

@rashn,
I checked the RTL issue in iTerm2, and apparently it's iTerm2 fault.
Only at version 3.6.0 iTerm2 added support for RTL languages, and for that to work the user needs to enable it in iTerms2's settings: Settings > General > Experimental > "Enable support for right-to-left scripts."

After enabling that setting, the RTL is working perfectly with your app as well!

[kobygold]

Thanks @rashn, now it works much better!
However there is still some issue: when I type Hebrew and convert it to English, there are several characters that systematically are generated as capital letters, specifically: A, K, U.

For example, if I type (in Hebrew) "what is the name of the", and convert to english, I'm getting: "whAt is the nAme of the".
I tried the entire abc, and got: "AbcdefghijKlmnopqrstUvwxyz" (see A, K, U are generated as capital).

It works the same in iTerm2 and the built-in Mac terminal.

[rashn]

Delivered 🎉 — “convert the whole line” shipped as Settings → Advanced → “Trigger converts the whole line.” It selects the current line up to the cursor and converts it, so it works in terminals (Claude Code etc.) with no mouse selection — exactly the flow you described.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion and for testing it through the beta. The A/K/U capital-letters issue you spotted later is also fixed (from 3.2.0 on).

Closing this as done — please open a fresh discussion or issue if you hit any edge case. 🙏