Description

Rubyroom is a full-screen text editor. Full screen gives you a complete workspace for your text, and nothing else. No IM windows popping up, no more "you got mail" small animations on the background that take away your concentration.

Screenshots

I am pretty sure the picture speaks for itself.

A shot from the latest (v0.3) version.

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From v0.2:

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Interaction

F1: Help F2: Save F3: Open F4: Save as... F5: Toggle the status line F6: change the background color F7: change the foreground color F8: change the font F9: Toggle the fade-out effect F10: Quit F11: Toggle FullScreen F12: Fortune (who can live without, a great starter if you are lacking inspiration)

ChangeLog:

v0.3: (Courtesy of Alexander RÃ¸dseth)

help function fadeout (crossfade) status text changed keybindings fullscreen toggle cancel open dialog works now status text toggle fadeout toggle different ESC/F10/Quit mechanism wordcount changed preference file to ~/.rubyroomrc

v0.2:

Added cursor-color. Added preference-file.

Why RubyRoom ?

RubyRoom is a clone of WriteRoom, of DarkRoom, of JDarkRoom. WriteRoom is for Mac, DarkRoom for Windows (.net), JDarkRoom for Java. But JDarkRoom told me it could not get fullscreen on my linux box. So if I wanted to have such editor, I could tune any existing complete editor (vi, emacs, gedit...), but I said to myself: "Hey, you could do that in a snap!". One hour later, RubyRoom was born.

And after one year of "you know, stuff that are time consuming", I got a mail with a lot of changes made to RubyRoom by Alexander RÃ¸dseth, so it's time for v0.3!

Requirements

RubyRoom requires ruby-gnome2 (and ruby, hehe).

Downloads

You can get the latest files from the project page.

What to do next

Have you use it! Go on.

Licence

RubyRoom is released under the GPL2.

RubyRoom is hosted on Rubyforge.

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