JDarkRoom for Mac

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffAugust 11, 2010

JDarkRoom is a free, full-screen text editor that's designed to help you focus on your writing by eliminating distractions. When you open JDarkRoom, your screen goes completely black except for a blinking green cursor. By design, JDarkRoom gives you a limited feature set, with support for only basic word-processing functions such as cut, copy, paste, undo, and line and word count. JDarkRoom opens quickly (although not quite as quickly as Text Edit) and offers many options for fonts, auto-saving, and screen and type color. Its interface can take some getting used to (for example, it uses some nonstandard keystrokes, such as control instead of command keys for saving and opening files), but overall JDarkRoom is an excellent choice (and value) for a text editor that can keep you focused.

What’s new in version 15

Goal feature - displays number of words required to reach a specific goal
Inherit indentation
Convert tabs to spaces
Insert timestamp feature - with configurable timestamp format
'No Delete' mode
'Typewriter scrolling' mode (experimental)
A choice of file encodings (default: UTF-8)
Many bug fixes and small tweaks