PyRoom — distraction free writing

by chanux • 16 years ago

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chanux• 16 years ago

OMMWriter for Mac - http://www.ommwriter.com

I'm still waiting for the app that makes other household members shut up... now that would be distraction-free writing. :-)

oscardelben• 16 years ago

It's not an app, and it doesn't work for others, but for you: use noise-canceling headphones.

pasbesoin3• 16 years ago

If you know of noise canceling headphones that are effective against the irregular waveforms of human speech, I'd be most interested.

Estragon• 16 years ago

I'm still waiting for the app which makes the voices in my head shut up. :-)

betageek• 16 years ago

Seems to be a open source clone of WriteRoom (http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom) - pretty much identical

Khroma• 16 years ago

The sad thing is that people are willing to pay for WriteRoom.

dirkstoop• 16 years ago

Yes, don't you just hate it when people make a living creating software? </sarcasm>

hyperbovine• 16 years ago

I paid for it! Strangely enough, I felt happy afterwards. Must have been me.

jrockway3• 16 years ago

Mac users would pay for air if it had rounded corners.

jrockway3• 16 years ago

C-x 1.

pgbovine2• 16 years ago

what about using vim with your terminal set to full-screen mode?

Edit: or in-terminal emacs ;) iTerm for Mac OS X has a nice full-screen mode

onewland• 16 years ago

Honestly, I'd like to do this but have a margin on the sides but haven't figured out how.

I would forever be your e-servant if you know how to do that. I'm sure I could figure out some hack, but it's just something I'd rather not work on.

pgbovine2• 16 years ago

hmmm sorry don't know how to do that. one semi-gross hack is to simply open up 3 vertical buffers in vim/emacs and have two of them be empty :)

ams6110• 16 years ago

Aquamacs: SHIFT-ALT-ENTER full-screens a frame. For side margins you can look at "fringe" settings.

visitor4rmindia• 16 years ago

Here you go:

    (defun fullscreen ()
      (interactive)
      (let (f w l r cb b)
        (setq cb (current-buffer))
        (setq b (switch-to-buffer "*NOSUCHBUFFER*")) ;Temp buffer otherwise
        (setq f (make-frame '((fullscreen . fullboth)))) ;settings don't take effect
        (select-frame-set-input-focus f)
        (setq w (frame-width f))
        (setq l (/ (- w 80) 2))
        (setq r (- w (+ l 80)))
        (seq-default left-margin-width l
                      right-margin-width r)
        (delete-other-frames f)             ;Only one main window
        (kill-buffer b) ;Kill temp buffer - now original buffer will get new margins
        (switch-to-buffer cb)))
    
    (defun fullscreen-off ()
      (interactive)
      (let (f cb b p)
        (setq cb (current-buffer))
        (setq b (switch-to-buffer "*NOSUCHBUFFER*")) ;Temp buffer
        (setq-default left-margin-width nil
                      right-margin-width nil)
        (kill-buffer b)
        (delete-other-frames (make-frame))
        (switch-to-buffer cb)))

GeoJawDguJin• 16 years ago

MacVim's full screen mode has the neatest implementation I've seen of this. Play with the 'fuoptions' setting, which gives you control over the margin color and the maximization behavior. If you disable maximization, it will just use the height/width values in 'lines' and 'columns' and the (borderless) window will be in the center of the screen.

Keyframe3• 16 years ago

I've been doing this with emacs for years now. I usually have emacs running fullscreen on 4:3 monitor alongside my main monitor, or when I'm on laptop I run it fullscreen also. Makes me, for some reason, more focused.

clean darkroom

http://imgur.com/LloOY.png

and with menu

http://imgur.com/yTeUz.png

starbuck_2• 16 years ago

Would you mind posting your config? I'm a bit of an emacs noob but I would love to be able to do this.

Keyframe3• 16 years ago

well my .emacs is a lot of collected/revised cruft over the years. It's a mess really, and I'm always putting away refactoring for some other time - since it works for me. You'd also need all of the included dependencies and stuff (it's windows specific, but could be made to work on other OS' also). So I might zip up my .emacs with all of the dependencies files if you want me to.

steadicat• 16 years ago

Looks like it's targeted squarely at programmers, given the name ("Py*") and the screenshot (green monospaced font on black).

Why? It's not a programming editor. And, judging by the other comments, programmers don't want this, as they can get pretty much the same layout in Emacs.

Change the name and start using a better font for prose and you've got yourself a much larger and more suitable audience.

kidko• 16 years ago

I used it quite successfully for Nanowrimo. The "Py" is probably because it's written in Python.

dkarl• 16 years ago

AwesomeWM + emacs + turn off the other monitor.

Awesome helps because sometimes you really do need to switch to another application (a terminal or browser) while writing. With Awesome you can switch between applications without seeing anything else. Be sure to turn off the Awesome status bar and the emacs menu bar for maximum immersion.

Also, it's nice to use a web browser like Conky that makes random browsing less convenient.

jimmi2• 16 years ago

i use this one http://focused.googlecode.com/

chadaustin• 16 years ago

I use DarkRoom ( http://they.misled.us/dark-room ) on Windows, which is going to be open source if enough people can harass the author. He simply hasn't gotten around to releasing it yet: http://github.com/jjafuller/DarkRoomW

jimmi2• 16 years ago

love it!

PyRoom — distraction free writing

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