This is the readme.txt located in the E-Sword HotKey installation directory.

NOTE: e-Sword HotKey works with e-Sword versions 8 and 9.

E-Sword HotKey works in conjunction with E-Sword on Microsoft Windows. With E-Sword running, while working in any other program, such as Mozilla Firefox, IE, MS-Word, WordPad, Adobe PDF file, etc, select a section of text that contains a Bible Text Reference, press the Ctrl key and C (Ctrl+C) to copy the selected text to the Windows Clipboard, then press the Ctrl+B key, the default hot key, which HotKey is looking for. HotKey then searches for the first Bible Text Reference, formats it some, then brings E-Sword to the front and tells E-Sword to look up the text. That is all that E-Sword HotKey does. Currently it works for English Bible book names and abbreviations only. Currently, no Bible chapter and verse validation is performed by HotKey. If a Reference is invalid, E-Sword will let you know! 

HotKey allows you to change the hot key that HotKey will respond to.  Click the Hotkey menu, and then select which modification keys (Ctrl, Alt, Shift) that you would like your new hot key to have, and press the key on the keyboard you want to use for your hot key.  Then Click the OK button on the key selection form.  

E-Sword HotKey has 2 modes of operation, Simple, and Search.

• Simple mode: HotKey only removes formating that E-Sword will not recognize, such as periods and parentheses. You must select the Bible reference fairly accurately for Simple mode to work correctly.
• Search mode: HotKey actively searches for the first recognizable Bible reference and sends that to E-Sword. You only need to be sure to include the Bible reference in your selected text. For this mode to work, HotKey has an internal list of Bible book names and common abbreviations. This is the default mode.

 
E-Sword HotKey is powered by APL+Win, http://www.apl2000.com, and is coded by Brent Hildebrand.

e-Sword(R) is a registered trademark of Rick Meyers.

Version History

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Version 3.04  10/03/2010
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-- Text Lookup was limited to 32767 characters.  New limit, 2,000,000.

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Version 3.03  8/14/2010
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-- speedup - now using optimized Bible Verse parser from e-Sword Tooltip Tool, v2.22

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Version 3.02  8/14/2010
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-- minor internal change in popup window.

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Version 3.01  6/27/2010
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-- Moved text parser from ToolTip Tool into HotKey to work with compound scripture references such as:  Lev. 4:1-7; 16:17,23,24.

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Version 3.00  6/27/2010
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-- Support for e-Sword Macros
-- If Macros installed, new menu item is added to the main screen = Macro
-- Separate HotKey for Macro function, default is ctrl+'  (control+quote).  Select text which includes one or more scripture references, copy it to the clipboard, press the new Macro hotkey.  The selected text is searched for the scripture references. If found they are looked up in e-Sword and the result is put back into the Windows clipboard, which can then be pasted into your document. 
-- Macro menus- HotKey, Search, Version and Copy/Style.

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Version 2.00  4/21/2010
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-- Abbreviation search order no longer important.  This matched the technology found in e-Sword ToolTip Tool.
-- Added back the HotButton (experimental)

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Version 1.08  8/28/2009
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-- Removed - HotButton
-- New - External Book abbreviations list is now supported.
-- New - Menu - "Abbr" for editing and selecting abbreviation lists.
-- New - Menu - Abbr+Use Default List, The Internal default abbreviation list is used
-- New - Menu - Abbr+External List, Opens dialog window to select abbreviation list
-- New - Menu - Abbr+Edit External List, opens dialog window to select list to edit
-- New - Menu - Abbr+Copy Internat List to External, copies the internal list to a file for editing.
-- Fixed - no space before chapter,  ex. 1Co13:4, would go to first chapter, not 13th.

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Version 1.07  5/18/2009
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-- New - HotButton - for use with a Tablet PC where a keyboard is not available.

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Version 1.06  5/15/2009
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-- 1JO, 2JO, 3JO were not recognized as appreviations for 1 John, 2 John and 3 John.

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Version 1.05 3/15/2009
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-- Rewrote search routine, old mechanism would not pick up "song of solomon 8:6" because of the spaces in the name.
-- Added more abbreviations. "first john 1:9", and "i john 1:9".
-- Single chapter books have chapter 1 appended so e-Sword will recognize the verse, example: "Jude 7" and tell e-Sword is is Jude 1:7.
-- Improved the finding of the target control in e-Sword for faster updates.
-- Added menus to Book and chapters (experimental)
-- Removed user additions to internal list. For non-standard books, use simple mode.
-- Added Mode menu, moved Simple and Search under this menu
-- Added Pre-Version 8 of e-Sword as an option under Mode menu. Default is version 8 of e-Sword.

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Version 1.04 Not released
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-- Changed, internal Book name and abbreviation list in now a single list. Multiple named books are searched first, just as "1 John" before single named books such as "John".

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Version 1.03
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-- Changed the mechanism by which HotKey sends data to e-Sword. This may be blocked in Windows Vista depending on permissions. HotKey tries to detect failure on Vista, and resorts to the old mechanism found in v1.02 and older.

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Version 1.02
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-- Added Simple mode. In Simple mode, user must be more careful to select a Bible reference. HK then performs some formatting to make it acceptible to E-Sword, such as removing periods and parentheses. Default mode in install is "Search" mode. No validity checks are performed on the Book name or chapter and verse numbering.
-- Changed, External Bible book name and abbreviation files are now merged with the internal list. V1.01 completely replaced the internal list. HotKey does not now write the name list files, just reads them.
-- Added menu item "SetKey" to allow the selection of the hot key to be used by HotKey. Click the SetKey menu, and select the key to be used as the hot key, along with modifiers such as the Alt, Ctrl and/or Shift key. For example, you can change the default F11 key, to Ctrl+Alt+H, or other key combination. This was added so as to not interfere with other programs use of function keys.
-- Added menu item, Abbr, with two options, 1) add to the Single book name abbreviation list and 2) add to the Multiple book name abbreviation list. Changes you add become effective immediately. This additions to the list are stored in two files in the Hotkey directory, Bookname-single.txt and Bookname-Multiple.txt.
-- Icon changed to a "Hot" E-Sword Icon.

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Version 1.01
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-- Added ability to augment internal Bible book names and abbreviations
-- ESHK-Booklist-Single.txt, names and abbreviations for single name books
-- ESHK-Booklist-Multiple.txt, names and abbreviations for multiple name books, such as Kings and Timothy

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Version 1.00
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First public release on http://e-sword-users.org
-- HotKey = F11 (not changable)
-- default mode is "search" mode where HotKey searches text for a valid Bible reference

This is eternal life: to know you, the only true God  John 17:3 GW