Codible is a lightweight terminal based text editor with basic operations. It is heavily inspired from Kilo written by Salvatore Sanfilippo and is released under the BSD 2 clause license.

Features

• Headless
• Can run irrespective of any desktop environment
• Embedded, scriptable
• Fully written in pure C language
• Doesn't depend on any library
• Independent of curses
• Standard escape sequenences like VT100
• REPL style CLI

Usage:

• By typing codible in Linux and codible.exe in Windows, it will open new buffer (clean slate mode).

• To open any existing file, just type codible and after a space provide the filename.
  For example, for opening codible.c, simply type:

  codible codible.c
  

  In Windows, simply type:

  codible.exe codible.c
  

Key Bindings

• Ctrl-S : Save
• Ctrl-Q : Quit
• Ctrl-F : Find string in file (Esc to exit, arrows to navigate)
• Home : Cursor at Left most character
• End : Cursor at Right most character
• Page Up : Previous Page
• Page Down : Next Page
• Arrow Keys : For navigation

Installation in Linux

1. The following packages should be installed:

   • git
   • gcc
   • make

2. Clone the repository by typing:

   git clone https://github.com/Hridoy-31/Codible.git
   

   in the terminal and press Enter.

   If you are using GitHub CLI, then type:

   gh repo clone Hridoy-31/Codible
   

   in the terminal and press Enter.

   It is recommended to use Github CLI

3. Change the directory to the cloned folder by typing:

   cd Codible
   

   and press Enter. Now the terminal will operate in that directory

4. To build Codible from source, type:

   make codible
   

   This will create the Linux executable file named codible

5. To run Codible, simply just type:

   ./codible
   

   That's it.

See the usage section and Key Bindings section for help.

Installation in Windows:

Because of using the <termios.h> header file, this text editor can not be installed or used natively in Windows. There is no cross compiled library for <termios.h> in Windows operating system.

1. To use Codible in windows, Cygwin must be installed. To install Cygwin, go to the official website Cygwin. Then, download and install Cygwin by running setup-x86_64.exe

2. In Select packages menu, select the following packages:

   • automake
   • cygwin-devel
   • gcc-core
   • gcc-g++
   • gcc-tools-epoch1-autoconf
   • gcc-tools-epoch1-automake
   • gcc-tools-epoch2-autoconf
   • gcc-tools-epoch2-automake
   • gccmakedep
   • gdb
   • git
   • make
   • makedepend

3. After installing Cygwin, add it to the PATH by simply putting C:\cygwin64\bin; in the PATH variable. It might be different in your system. So check it carefully.

4. Open Cygwin64 Terminal. It will be in C:\cygwin64\home\USER directory. USER is your username here

5. In the terminal, type:

   git clone https://github.com/Hridoy-31/Codible.git
   

   and press Enter. It will fetch the repository to the above mentioned directory.

6. Change the directory by typing:

   cd Codible
   

   and press Enter. Now the terminal will active inside the directory.

7. Now for building Codible from the source, type:

   make codible
   

   and press Enter.

8. Now type codible.exe and press Enter. Thats it !!

See the usage section and Key Bindings section for help.