The Bible in the terminal

I use my laptop a lot, so I thought it'll be cool to also read my Bible on it. I wanted it to be in the terminal because I use the terminal quite often.

It was meant to be a relatively quick and easy project, but I wanted to "modularize" my code (bad idea). I spent some time writing a custom input field for ncurses with quite the features. I made it very modular as if I had plans to use it in the future. It's actually pretty cool ngl. It has a ton of features and cool effects.

I intially used Python and C to create this, but I switched to solely C. I used the sqlite3 C interface to communicate with the databases.

Btw, ncurses is an API for writing terminal applications that (kinda) look like GUIs.

Features

• Mouse input (this is part of the features I added to my custom input field). You can (double) click on the input fields to switch focus to it and enter text.
• Red colour output for the words of Jesus.
• Stores your last visited Bible "path" (book, chapter and verse).
• 6 Bible translations: AMPC, KJV, MSG, NKJV, NLT, TLB (press TAB to switch translations).
• Shows titles for important parts of Scripture.
• Move between chapters and books with the arrow keys
• Auto completion when typing in books.
• Automatically detects the translations stored in the db folder and displays them.
• Shows the maximum chapters and verses of a book
• You can also pass a Bible path as an argument in the terminal.

Yeah, you can probably see I put a lot effort into this 😅.

Type make and run ./bible to try it out.