[sword-devel] cbible

[Peter von Kaehne]

Hi Tim,

It failed to compile on my machine - Debian testing.

Peter

On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 13:36 -0400, Tim Hawes wrote:
> I am thinking I should make some announcement about cbible.
> https://github.com/timotheosh/cbible
> 
> This is a persoanl project. I wanted an Emacs mode that uses Sword, 
> and
> diatheke is very limiting.
> 
> I wanted to be able to turn off verse numbers, and just print the
> reference for the entire passage selection at the end, rather than
> getting full book/chapter/verse at the begining of every verse. I 
> also
> wanted to be able to save commentary notes in the Personal commentary
> module. So I set up to write a better diatheke (of sorts).
> 
> I have not written in C++ in well over 10 years now, so this was an
> opportunity for me to re-learn the language as well.
> 
> I even wrote some very simple unit tests with the Catch unit test
> library (https://github.com/philsquared/Catch), and on every commit 
> to
> master, the project compiles and runs the unit tests on Travis CI
> (https://travis-ci.org/timotheosh/cbible).
> 
> If you run the program without arguments, you will start in an
> interactive mode, similar to the old KJV bible program that used to 
> be
> on the old UNIX C programs FTP site, and now is part of
> Debian. Interactive mode uses the GNU readline library. I want to
> implement tab-completion for Scripture references, but have not found 
> a
> good way to do this automatically.
> 
> There is a Kdevelop project file (even though I am writing this 
> almost
> entirely in Emacs).
> 
> The program will kickout the Scripture references (with ranges) you
> through at it, and will turn on or off versification, and with any
> module you have installed. I have not yet implemented search, but I 
> will
> in the near future. I have the component that writes to the Personal
> commentary module working, but I have not yet committed those 
> changes. I
> will commit once I refine the unit tests for that piece (within the 
> next
> day or so, if not later today).
> 
> The program creates a config file for the user on first use, that 
> right
> now, just contains the default module. You can specify any module you
> have installed, but uses the KJV by default, until you change it in 
> the
> config file (at ~/.cbibe.cfg).
> 
> I am using boost's program_options library. I was thinking of using
> getopts at first, but I like the idea of using a configuration file 
> as
> well, and boost's library handles both commandline options and
> configuration file.
> 
> I plan on doing some blogging in org-mode on Emacs in the near 
> future,
> and at some point, I will stop writing any new features for this
> software, so I can write the elisp I need to be able to use this 
> within
> Emacs, but I can see potential for this lil' pet project to grow some
> new features.
> 
> Yours in Christ,
> 
> Tim Hawes
> 
> --
> Sent with my mu4e
> 
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