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Re: PyRoom — distraction free writing

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Post by dkarl »

AwesomeWM + emacs + turn off the other monitor.

Awesome helps because sometimes you really do need to switch to another application (a terminal or browser) while writing. With Awesome you can switch between applications without seeing anything else. Be sure to turn off the Awesome status bar and the emacs menu bar for maximum immersion.

Also, it's nice to use a web browser like Conky that makes random browsing less convenient.

Re: PyRoom — distraction free writing

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Post by GeoJawDguJin »

onewland wrote: post #7
pgbovine wrote: post #6

what about using vim with your terminal set to full-screen mode? Edit: or in-terminal emacs ;) iTerm for Mac OS X has a nice full-screen mode

Honestly, I'd like to do this but have a margin on the sides but haven't figured out how. I would forever be your e-servant if you know how to do that. I'm sure I could figure out some hack, but it's just something I'd rather not work on.

MacVim's full screen mode has the neatest implementation I've seen of this. Play with the 'fuoptions' setting, which gives you control over the margin color and the maximization behavior. If you disable maximization, it will just use the height/width values in 'lines' and 'columns' and the (borderless) window will be in the center of the screen.

Re: PyRoom — distraction free writing

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Post by jrockway »

pasbesoin wrote: post #16
oscardelben wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not an app, and it doesn't work for others, but for you: use noise-canceling headphones.

If you know of noise canceling headphones that are effective against the irregular waveforms of human speech, I'd be most interested.

In that case, you want something that actually blocks the sound, like these:

http://www.amazon.com/Etymotic-Research-Portable-Earphones-B...

35db of isolation. You basically can't hear anything, which is nice when you need to work somewhere noisy, or want to listen to music on an airplane. It's infinitely better than noise cancellation.

Re: PyRoom — distraction free writing

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Post by jrockway »

Khroma wrote: post #10
betageek wrote: post #4

Seems to be a open source clone of WriteRoom ( http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom ) - pretty much identical

The sad thing is that people are willing to pay for WriteRoom.

Mac users would pay for air if it had rounded corners.

Re: PyRoom — distraction free writing

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Post by rms »

pasbesoin wrote: post #16
oscardelben wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not an app, and it doesn't work for others, but for you: use noise-canceling headphones.

If you know of noise canceling headphones that are effective against the irregular waveforms of human speech, I'd be most interested.

Being ineffective for speech is actually a "feature" of Bose headphones. I second the recommendation for Etymotic earphones.

Re: PyRoom — distraction free writing

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Post by starbuck_ »

Keyframe wrote: post #15

I've been doing this with emacs for years now. I usually have emacs running fullscreen on 4:3 monitor alongside my main monitor, or when I'm on laptop I run it fullscreen also. Makes me, for some reason, more focused. clean darkroom http://imgur.com/LloOY.png and with menu http://imgur.com/yTeUz.png

Would you mind posting your config? I'm a bit of an emacs noob but I would love to be able to do this.

Re: PyRoom — distraction free writing

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Post by Keyframe »

starbuck_ wrote: post #28
Keyframe wrote: post #15

I've been doing this with emacs for years now. I usually have emacs running fullscreen on 4:3 monitor alongside my main monitor, or when I'm on laptop I run it fullscreen also. Makes me, for some reason, more focused. clean darkroom http://imgur.com/LloOY.png and with menu http://imgur.com/yTeUz.png

Would you mind posting your config? I'm a bit of an emacs noob but I would love to be able to do this.

well my .emacs is a lot of collected/revised cruft over the years. It's a mess really, and I'm always putting away refactoring for some other time - since it works for me. You'd also need all of the included dependencies and stuff (it's windows specific, but could be made to work on other OS' also). So I might zip up my .emacs with all of the dependencies files if you want me to.
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