darkroom
Simple distraction-free editing (by joaotavora)
olivetti
Emacs minor mode to automatically balance window margins (by rnkn)
| darkroom | olivetti | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 15 | |
| 145 | 977 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 6.5 | |
| about 3 years ago | 6 months ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
darkroom
Posts with mentions or reviews of darkroom.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-20.
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Wanted: A nice looking recent file dialog
There are nice looking distraction-free setups with https://github.com/joostkremers/writeroom-mode or https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti or https://github.com/joaotavora/darkroom or https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs
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Distraction free writing with Emacs
Is there a reason you specifically do a fboundp check on the modes you turn off? They are base emacs. I sometimes use darkroom which is nice with this simple config
olivetti
Posts with mentions or reviews of olivetti.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-21.
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Emacs for literature
I also use writeroom because I prefer its simplicity, but worth mentioning that olivetti is the more popular writing mode.
- My Emacs eye candy
- Word Grinder: Terminal Based Distraction Free Word Processor
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Wanted: A nice looking recent file dialog
There are nice looking distraction-free setups with https://github.com/joostkremers/writeroom-mode or https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti or https://github.com/joaotavora/darkroom or https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs
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How to make org mode not one giant block of text
For batteries-included packages that give you dedicated prose-writing modes, see also olivetti and writeroom-mode.
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Text books in Emacs
You could use olivetti-mode or Writeroom mode.
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"Virtual" word wrap length?
Another option is the Olivetti package. https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti
- Screenwriting with Fountain-Mode and Olivetti-Mode is PERFECTION!
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Assistance with Writing fiction with Emacs
Don't have a specific tutorial except to suggest setting org-mode to use olivetti and a nice variable pitch font for writing prose. You might also like the poet theme.
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Looking for evil-mode resources for non vim users emacs beginners
If you want to try out some third-party packages in the beginning, I think the most "bang-for-your-buck" you'll get is with Avy. Also, expand-region. And specifically for writing: olivetti-mode, flyspell, dictionary, and Nicolas Rougier's Nano and Elegant Emacs setups.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing darkroom and olivetti you can also consider the following projects:
emacs-dashboard - An extensible emacs dashboard
writeroom-mode - Writeroom-mode: distraction-free writing for Emacs.
fountain-mode - Emacs major mode for screenwriting in Fountain plain-text markup
visual-fill-column - Emacs mode for wrapping visual-line-mode buffers at fill-column.
Emacs-langtool - LanguageTool for Emacs
org-appear - Toggle visibility of hidden Org mode element parts upon entering and leaving an element
elegant-emacs - A very minimal but elegant emacs (I think)
nano-emacs - GNU Emacs / N Λ N O - Emacs made simple
org-fragtog - Automatically toggle Org mode LaTeX fragment previews as the cursor enters and exits them
use-package - A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs
org-fc - Spaced Repetition System for Emacs org-mode
darkroom vs emacs-dashboard
olivetti vs writeroom-mode
darkroom vs writeroom-mode
olivetti vs fountain-mode
olivetti vs visual-fill-column
olivetti vs Emacs-langtool
olivetti vs org-appear
olivetti vs elegant-emacs
olivetti vs nano-emacs
olivetti vs org-fragtog
olivetti vs use-package
olivetti vs org-fc