JDarkRoom
JDarkRoom 100.0
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JDarkRoom is a simple full-screen text file editor with none of the usual bells and whistles that might distract you from the job in hand. If you are writing a novel, essay, thesis or just need to be able to concentrate on your writing, then JDarkRoom may help you.

Features:
  • Change your colour preferences, font and font size - via the settings screen (F6)
  • JDarkRoom remembers the file that you were working on last time
  • Support for central-european character sets
  • JDarkRoom notifies you if you might have forgotten to save your
What's New
Version 100.0:
  • Goal feature - displays number of words required to reach a specific goal
  • Inherit indentation
  • Convert tabs to spaces
  • Insert timestamp feature - with configurable timestamp format
  • 'No Delete' mode
  • 'Typewriter scrolling' mode (experimental)
  • A choice of file encodings (default: UTF-8)
  • Many bug fixes and small tweaks
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 or later





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AmberV reviewed on 19 Jan 2009
Perfect if you do not have the wallet to support WriteRoom's cost. This is a text editor with a beautifully done old-school interface. Funny how these old methods still work so well. You can change every single function in this application without once reaching for the mouse.

I wish it jumped straight back into full screen when you Cmd-Tab back to it, that is the only major issue I had with it. I love fixed width fonts so that aspect is no problem for me.
[Version 12]


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flopka commented on 11 Jul 2008
This is a surprisingly effective alternative to Writeroom which has grown to have too many bells and whistles for a "simple" word processor. Yeah, it's old-skool, but it works. Wish it had other than monospaced fonts, though.
[Version 12]


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dnem41 reviewed on 24 Jun 2008
very cool. full screen. black. green. simple.
[Version 12]


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Dalahast commented on 16 Jun 2008
The old version of WriteRoom is still up for free on the developer's site. This might be worth my while if it had various settings that made it useful for everyone (such as say, vim, nano, and emacs modes that let users familiar with those programs get around with keyboard shortcuts). I find that running vim fullscreen will solve the problem nicely for me– if you can learn vim (I was able to learn a good deal of vim in 30 minutes), it'll help you for more than just coding. You can write faster and make lists with ease.
[Version 12]


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Downloads:3,102
Version Downloads:1,048
Type:Business : Word Processing
License:Free
Date:23 Jun 2010
Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X
Price:Free0.00
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JDarkRoom is a simple full-screen text file editor with none of the usual bells and whistles that might distract you from the job in hand. If you are writing a novel, essay, thesis or just need to be able to concentrate on your writing, then JDarkRoom may help you.

Features:
  • Change your colour preferences, font and font size - via the settings screen (F6)
  • JDarkRoom remembers the file that you were working on last time
  • Support for central-european character sets
  • JDarkRoom notifies you if you might have forgotten to save your changes
  • Word/line/character count (Ctrl-L)
  • Specify a file on the command-line for JDarkRoom to open it at startup
  • Text antialiasing (where possible)
  • Mouse-wheel scrolling
  • Adjustable margins to fit any screen resolution (F9 to reset)
  • Auto-save backups - so you never lose your work again
  • Text search (F7 / Ctrl-F)
  • A command-reminder strip can be displayed at the bottom of the screen


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