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79 lines
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# esv
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*Read the Bible from your terminal*
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`esv` is a utility that displays passages of the English Standard Bible on your terminal.
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It connects to the ESV web API to retrieve the passages,
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and allows configuration through command-line options and the configuration file.
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Example usage:
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```
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$ esv Psalm 23
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Psalm 23
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The LORD Is My Shepherd
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A Psalm of David.
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The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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He makes me lie down in green pastures....
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```
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If the requested passage is over 32 lines long, `esv` will pipe it through a pager
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(default less). The pager being used can be changed through the `ESV_PAGER`
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environment variable or just disabled altogether by passing the -P option.
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The names of Bible books are not case sensitive, so John, john, JOHN and jOhN
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are all accepted.
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## Audio
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`esv` supports playing audio passages through the -a option.
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The `mpg123` audio/video player is utilised here and so it is therefore required
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if you want to use audio mode.
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Audio usage is the same as normal text usage. `esv -a Matthew 5-7` will play
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an audio passage of Matthew 5-7.
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## Installation
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To install `esv`, first make sure you have the [LLVM D compiler (ldc)](https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc#installation) installed on your system.
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There are no other external dependencies.
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First clone the source code repository:
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```
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$ git clone https://codeberg.org/jtbx/esv
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$ cd esv
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```
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Now, compile and install:
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```
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$ make
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# make install
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```
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By default the Makefile guesses that the ldc executable is named `ldc2`. If it is installed
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under `ldc` instead, you can override the default D compiler executable by adding `DC=ldc`
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to the end of the `make` line.
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## Documentation
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All documentation is contained in the manual pages. To access them, you can run
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`man esv` and `man esv.conf` for the `esv` utility and the configuration file respectively.
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## Copying
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Copying, modifying and redistributing this software is permitted
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as long as your modified version conforms to the GNU General Public License version 2.
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The file esv.d is a reusable library.
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The license is contained in the file COPYING.
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This software uses a modified version of a library named "dini". This is released under
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the Boost Software License version 1.0, which can be found in import/dini/LICENSE.
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dini can be found at https://github.com/robik/dini.
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My changes can be found at https://github.com/jtbx/dini.
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