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Jon Hadley
Jon Hadley

Reputation: 5296

Fullscreen editors?

Whilst fiddling recently with Ulysses 2.0 - "The definitive creative writing package", I was struck by how effective the fullscreen/console mode was at focusing my mind on actually getting words on the page.

Are there any code editors that include a similar function? Or even a hack that allows code highlighting in Ulysees?

Preferably, for me, OSX, but feel free to list alternatives for others.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 466

Answers (6)

Murph
Murph

Reputation: 10190

This is going to end up a long list!

I use Textpad as my text editor when not using Visual Studio - http://www.textpad.com - and it has a fullscreen mode.

Upvotes: 0

zvikico
zvikico

Reputation: 9825

I use Think from Freeverse. It's a free utility that highlights your current app and simply darkens everything else, enabling you to focus on your document.

You can use it with your favorite editor. If you use Eclipse, you can double click the editor tab to maximize it, collapsing all other views. You can also customize the colors (if you prefer white text on dark background). It's not quite the same, but not bad.

Upvotes: 1

Josh Lee
Josh Lee

Reputation: 177685

MacVim has a fullscreen mode: :set fullscreen, :help fullscreen, and ⇧⌘F.

Upvotes: 3

Stephan202
Stephan202

Reputation: 61549

Any console based editor (vim, emacs, nano, ...) can be used in full screen mode, as long as the terminal in which it is run supports it. And I'd wager that most or all do. Usually this functionality is bound to F11 or Alt+Enter.

Upvotes: 3

RCIX
RCIX

Reputation: 39457

Visual Studio has a fullscreen mode via pressing Shift+Alt+Enter.

Upvotes: 2

RCIX
RCIX

Reputation: 39457

Notepad++ has fullscreen mode by pressing F11 (or f12 i can't decide).

Upvotes: 1

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