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Freeware, fullscreen writing for OS X?

Hog Bay Software seems to be reading 43folders and courting Merlin and other writers. They have just released a full screen writiing tool called "Writeroom":

http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom

In my mad rush to be mister Uber-Cool with the first post I haven't yet tried it. But I will test it in a few minutes to see if it can lure me away from TextWrangler.

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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My list so far: - "Esc"...

RickP in AZ wrote:
My list so far:
- "Esc" or user option for fullscreen toggle

Well, it uses the same one-hand shortcut that iTunes does. (ctrl-cmd-Z)
Quote:
- "Bottom Margin" (Like TextWrangler's "Extra space>half page" preference)

Holy cow, I'd never even seen that preference before. Ka-click.

Anyway, if you're in fullscreen mode here, you can do something similar by playing with the page width and height. I've got 'em set to 860 and 570 (on a 1024x768 screen), and I don't feel claustrophobic at all. (It feels more open if you set the page and background to the same color.)

And yeah, man, I'd like the option to edit files in-place, too. I dunno if that fits in with their vision, though.

 
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