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Dark Room: WriteRoom for Windows
by Jordan Running Jul 3rd 2006 at 10:40AM
On Friday I linked to a little app for OS X called WriteRoom, which is a minimalist word processor for writers. A few of the commenters didn't quite "get" it (sorry, folks, but maximizing Word and changing the colors isn't remotely equivalent to a distraction-free writing environment*), but a lot of writers certainly do, including one developer who missed it so much when he had to use Windows that he just built a Windows version. Dark Room is a WriteRoom clone for Windows that's just as minimal and just as free.*Though one commenter suggested installing Word 5.5 for DOS, which is closer.
[Thanks, Sam!]
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Steve said 12:29PM on 7-03-2006
.NET framework initilization error...it won't install...Oh well.
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Grimbus said 11:40PM on 7-06-2006
Yes, same here. There is probably an easy and obvious solution to this, but I don't know it. Any help? If not, it's too bad, cause this seems excellent.
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Grimbus said 12:15AM on 7-07-2006
Yep, turns out I was right - easy solution was already posted in comments at the read link. Just go to this link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en
and download and install the framework. Seems like no big whoop. Hope that helps - I've got the program running now and it's awesome.
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Duncan Jauncey said 6:21PM on 3-19-2007
I liked this so much, I wrote my own version in Java. :-)
http://www.duncanjauncey.com/jdarkroom
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Brett said 12:37AM on 7-09-2006
Great stuff.
. Unicode txt save support, helps in extended character/DBCS character input.
. Simple encryption support. I save quick txt in a flash file I carry around. Would love this FYEO feature.
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G-man said 1:31PM on 7-11-2006
There is also a very good Windows option to this program called the WestEdit text editor.
It can be found at http://home.online.no/~westerma/WestEdit/
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