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= Enbas
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== Overview
Enbas is a https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/[GoToSocial] client for your terminal written
in https://go.dev[Go]. The project is currently a work in progress so breaking changes will be
made and bugs may appear here and there during its early development.
Enbas has limited functionality at the moment and it is **not** recommended for use
with your production GoToSocial servers.
This project is licensed under GPLv3.
=== Repository mirrors
- **Code Flow:** https://codeflow.dananglin.me.uk/apollo/enbas
- **Codeberg:** https://codeberg.org/dananglin/enbas
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/dananglin/enbas
== Installation
=== Download
Pre-built binaries will be available on the release page on both Codeberg and GitHub when the first
release is made.
=== Build from source
==== Requirements
===== Go
A minimum version of Go 1.22.0 is required for installing spruce.
Please go https://go.dev/dl/[here] to download the latest version.
===== Mage (Optional)
The project includes mage targets for building and installing the binary.
The main advantage of using mage is that the binary's build information is baked into the binary
during compilation. You can visit the https://magefile.org/[Mage website] for instructions on how to install Mage.
==== Install with mage
You can install Enbas with Mage using the following commands:
[source,console]
----
git clone https://github.com/dananglin/enbas.git
cd enbas/internal/build/
mage install
----
By default Mage will attempt to install Enbas to `/usr/local/bin/enbas` which will most likely fail as you won't
the permission to write to `/usr/local/bin/`. You will need to either run `sudo mage install`, or you can
(preferably) change the install prefix to a directory that you have permission to write to using
the `ENBAS_INSTALL_PREFIX` environment variable. For example:
[source,console]
----
ENBAS_INSTALL_PREFIX=${HOME}/.local mage install
----
This will install Enbas to `~/.local/bin/enbas`.
==== Install with go
If your `GOBIN` directory is included in your `PATH` then you can install Enbas with Go.
[source,console]
----
git clone https://github.com/dananglin/enbas.git
cd enbas
go install ./cmd/enbas
----
== Configuration
Enbas uses Go's https://pkg.go.dev/os#UserConfigDir[os.UserConfigDir()] function to determine the
location of your configuration directory.
If you've set the `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` environment variable, the configuration files will be stored in the `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/enbas` directory.
If this is not set:
- on Linux the configuration directory will be set to `$HOME/.config/enbas`.
- on Darwin (MacOS) the configuration directory will be set to `$HOME/Library/Application Support/enbas`.
- on Windows the configuration directory will be set within the `%AppData%` directory.
If (for whatever reason) any of the above cannot be determined, the configuration directory will be set to
the current working directory.
== Usage
=== Check the build information
=== Check out the help documentation
=== Log into your GoToSocial account
=== View your account information
=== View a remote account
=== View your timeline
=== View a status
== Inspirations
This project was inspired from the following projects:
- **madonctl:** https://github.com/McKael/madonctl[A Mastodon CLI client written in Go.]
- **toot:** https://pypi.org/project/toot/[A Mastodon CLI and TUI written in Python.]
- **tut:** https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut[A Mastodon TUI written in Go.]