DarkRoom is a narley little fulscreen text editor that is free of excessive any buttons and sliders to distract you. (But in windowed mode, it does have a toolbar on the top. Push F11 to go fullscreen. ) The developer compared it to the grossly overpriced ‘WriteRoom’ program for Mac os X. This one is open source. While I don’t like the default color scheme, it is easily customized by pushing ctrl+, (comma) to get to the options dialog. I use it with the font set to ‘Courier New 11pt’ and I changed all the colors too:
Font: R:0, G:75, B:125 (or B:150-175 to make it brighter maybe)
Page: R:0, G:3, B:5
Background: R:0, G:0, B:12, Alpha/Opacity:0
I really did use darkroom to catch up on 14 pages of CLEP notes in one day.
Some people may find this scheme to be a little dark, but the default black and green setting kills your eyes if you use it too long. Other than this problem, I also kept getting some ‘invalid form’ exception, but the program works fine if I just click ‘continue’.
A cool feature about darkroom is that it will make its own buffer to keep text in the editor even if you close it without saving.
And yes, I was just looking for an excuse to use the word ‘narley’
October 8, 2008 at 4:14 pm |
Great post. I am going to download it here at work to use as my text editor.
Special note: gnarly!
October 8, 2008 at 4:46 pm |
This shows you how closely the urban dictionary and wikipedia resemble each other.
October 8, 2008 at 5:35 pm |
Exactly. Mine is the old fuddy-duddy spelling (if I spelled that right)!