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Freeware, fullscreen writing for OS X?
RickP in AZ | Jun 30 2006
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. 7 Comments
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 So far I like what...Submitted by RickP in AZ on June 30, 2006 - 9:01am.
So far I like what I see but have already found that there are certain things I *need* it to have. The most important of which is the fact that although it "auto-saves" your work, it does so to its own file ~/Library/Application Support/Writeroom/ I work in plain TXT so I would prefer that it allowed me to work on a specific file, in TXT, and auto-save to that file. As it stands you have to "Export Writeroom" to a separate file in order to keep your data as open as possible. I've been burned one too many times by proprietary file formats. But the author seems very, very receptive to suggestions on the program so once I finalize my list of must-haves I'll send them his/her way. My list so far: » POSTED IN:
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