void is a stupid, free and open-source, terminal-based text editor program built based on Salvatore Sanfilippo's (aka antirez) kilo text editor at its core with the help of Paige Ruten (aka snaptoken) Build Your Own Text Editor booklet. Unlike the original kilo editor, void made use of ncurses programming library instead of plain escape sequences manipulation and termios.h functions.

I wrote this text editor back in 2023 because I'm bored and curious of how terminal-based text editors like Vim and GNU Nano works and still maintaining it to this day. I won't say I made this editor for daily use in mind, it primarily made just for fun anyway. For now, void is extremely bare bone and pretty much useless and outdated by today's standard (but I don't care and I acknowledge that so I'm well aware of this).

Here's the installation steps if you're interested of trying or contributing (I'll update this README later on by including the text editor features cause I'm quite busy at the moment):

To install void, you'll need to build it from source yourself. I didn't provide any compiled binary here unfortunately for now. Here's the tools needed to start:

gcc >= 12.2.0
make >= 4.3
ncurses >= 6.4-4

For Windows users, this editor unfortunately is not designed natively for your OS. You have to make use of WSL instead. I'm not really sure for macOS though, I never tried one before. Fun fact, it's possible for you to build this project through Termux and yes, I tried it. It works.

git clone https://github.com/mkluth/void.git
cd void
make

The binary will placed in the current directory and can be moved to anywhere you like. There are two more make command options worth knowing for this project:

make debug # Compiling for debugging purposes.
make clean # Clear the void directory from *.o files and its compiled binary

For debugging, it's totally up to you to either use gdb, lldb or even valgrind. Same thing applied for compiling with LLVM clang, it's totally up to you (but you'll need to edit the provided Makefile if you're interested of automating the entire compilation process -- it uses gcc by default).

Currently in progress, it'll be here in the future. Just be patience ;) For the code style guide, please follow the Linux kernel style guide because that's my most favourite style guide for C in particular.

If you happened to find any bugs or even interested of submitting pull requests, I'll be more than happy to listen to your feedbacks and working together with you! Sorry for any grammatical errors you found anywhere in this project, I'm not a native English speaker.