Darkroom
Darkroom is a clone ofWriteroom for Mac.
When you open Darkroom, you will see what we mean when we say “minimalist text editors”.
The tool presents you with a full black screen, a green cursor, and a few up/down arrows.
Features are pretty sparse, and I don’t mean this in a negative way.
Ctrl-S gets you a save menu, and there are several other keyboard shortcuts.
jDarkRoom
jDarkRoom is a java clone of Darkroom.
However the similarity begins and ends with black screen and green text.
Mark actually did awriteup on jDarkRoomalready so you should look there for an in depth review.
Word 5.5 for DOS
Surprised to see this one on the list?
What is old is new again!
Well, what do you know, some writers still use this program to write their books.
It has a simple layout and takes up the whole screen.
All of the options are there to help you write.
The kick ass thing about Word 5.5 is that it also includes a spell check and thesaurus.
This can really help out those budding writers in a pinch.
q10
If DarkRoom and WriteRoom would have a big brother, his name would be q10.
Using Ctrl-P brings up a menu with all of the available options.
There are some other popular text editors for writers.
Of course, one of the most simple ones is Notepad, which comes with Windows.
A step up from that is a Notepad replacement.
There are a plethora of them, some of my favorites arePSPadandTextpad.
Seeherefor a pretty comprehensive list.
There is also the school of thought that favorsvioremacs.
They aren’t for the timid but give it a shot if you are interested.
