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WriteRoom: Free full-screen writing app for OS X
Merlin Mann | Jun 30 2006
O, how we distraction-prone people pine for persistent and ubiquitous full-screen mode. And it looks like the good folks at Hog Bay have come up with an elegant freeware app to help save the beleaguered writer from him or herself.
It's a primitive application, to be sure -- I suspect completely by design -- but it may be just what the doctor ordered if you need to get your head out of your butt and put some words on the page. I can see myself spending a lot of time in WriteRoom. [ via RickP_in_AZ on the board ] 40 Comments
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 There are a couple of...Submitted by FARfetched (not verified) on June 30, 2006 - 10:43am.
There are a couple of other Mac-centric (well, Unix-centric, but the two run together these days) ways of getting the same thing. 1) Maximize a Terminal window, type (minus the quotes) "cat > file.txt" at the prompt, and start typing your text. Press Ctrl-D when finished. This is the real virtual typewriter -- once you've entered a line, there's no going back to edit it. If you want something slightly more luxurious, try the "pico" editor. Type "man pico" at the command line to see how it works. 2) If you have your login set up where you type both your name & your password (instead of clicking on a user name), enter >console with no password. This puts you into a text-only mode, white text on a black screen, with a login prompt. Enter your user name & password where prompted, and then type "cat" or "pico" as above. For the other kind of operating system, you could reboot into safe mode and use "edit." » POSTED IN:
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