TermLens popup

The TermLens popup is a borderless floating version of the docked TermLens panel for the active segment. Designed for keyboard-only term selection on small screens – and for translators who want to insert terms without ever reaching for the mouse.

When to use it

Small screens / laptops – keeping the docked TermLens panel always-visible can cost too much vertical space, especially for longer source sentences. The popup gives you the same view on demand and disappears when you’re done.
Pure-keyboard workflows – Ctrl-tap, cycle, Enter, back to typing. No mouse, no menu hunting.

Opening and closing

Key	Action
Ctrl (tap)	Toggle the popup (open if closed, close if open)
Ctrl+Alt+G	Open the popup (alternative shortcut)
Escape	Close without inserting
Click outside the popup	Close without inserting

A “Ctrl tap” is a press-and-release of the Ctrl key on its own – no other key in between, and held for less than 400 ms. The same memoQ-style trigger that older versions of Supervertaler used to open the Term Picker dialogue.

Cycling between matches

When the popup opens, the first match has an amber ring around its source word – that is the current match that Enter will insert.

Key	Action
Right / Down / Tab	Move the current-match highlight to the next match
Left / Up / Shift+Tab	Move it to the previous match

Cycling wraps: from the last match, Right takes you back to the first.

Inserting

Key / action	Result
Enter	Insert the current match into the target segment, close the popup, return focus to the target cell
Click any chip	Insert that match into the target segment, close the popup, return focus to the target cell

Both paths share the same insertion logic – there is no difference between picking by keyboard and picking by mouse.

Editing a match

Press E while a match is highlighted to open the term-entry editor for that entry. The popup closes first so the editor opens with clean focus. The editor is the same dialogue the docked panel’s right-click “Edit Term…” menu uses, including the multi-termbase editing case for entries that exist in more than one termbase.

Visuals

The popup uses the same chip rendering, colour scheme, and metadata indicators as the docked TermLens panel – pink for project termbase terms, blue for regular Supervertaler terms, yellow for non-translatable, green for MultiTerm. See the TermLens overview for the full colour key.

Both show the same matches for the active segment. Pick whichever fits your style:

	TermLens popup (Ctrl tap)	Term Picker dialogue (Ctrl+Shift+P)
Layout	Source segment with chips underneath each matched word	Sortable, scrollable table
Best for	Skimming matches in segment context	Many matches that benefit from sorting / typing-to-jump
Keyboard	Arrow / Tab cycles a highlighted match	0–9 jumps directly; Up / Down navigate
Modality	Modeless – click outside to dismiss	Modal – Escape or Cancel to close