writeroom-mode VS darkroom

Compare writeroom-mode vs darkroom and see what are their differences.

writeroom-mode

Writeroom-mode: distraction-free writing for Emacs. (by joostkremers)

darkroom

Simple distraction-free editing (by joaotavora)
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writeroom-mode darkroom
6 2
592 145
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4.0 0.0
7 months ago about 3 years ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License -
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writeroom-mode

Posts with mentions or reviews of writeroom-mode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.

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.
  • Wanted: A nice looking recent file dialog
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 20 Feb 2023
    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
  • Distraction free writing with Emacs
    1 project | /r/emacs | 11 May 2021
    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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing writeroom-mode and darkroom you can also consider the following projects:

olivetti - Emacs minor mode to automatically balance window margins

emacs-dashboard - An extensible emacs dashboard

dot-doom - My Doom Emacs config files. Mirrored from https://gitlab.com/zzamboni/dot-doom

Emacs-langtool - LanguageTool for Emacs

org-super-links - Package to create links with auto backlinks

org-noter - Emacs document annotator, using Org-mode

visual-fill-column - Emacs mode for wrapping visual-line-mode buffers at fill-column.

git-auto-commit-mode - Automatically commit to git after each save

org-fc - Spaced Repetition System for Emacs org-mode

org-pomodoro - pomodoro technique for org-mode

pdf-tools - Emacs support library for PDF files.

org-sidebar - A helpful sidebar for Org mode