JDarkRoom 15 Beta

JDarkRoom is a popular, simple full-screen text file editor with none of the usual bells and whistles that might distract you from the job in hand.

If you are writing a novel, essay, thesis or just need to be able to concentrate on your writing, then JDarkRoom may help you.

The development of JDarkRoom was heavily inspired by DarkRoom, an implementation of WriteRoom (which is a Mac-only application) for Windows.

Here are some key features of "JDarkRoom":

· Change your colour preferences, font and font size - via the settings screen (F6)
· JDarkRoom remembers the file that you were working on last time
· Support for central-european character sets
· JDarkRoom notifies you if you might have forgotten to save your changes
· Word/line/character count (Ctrl-L)
· Specify a file on the command-line for JDarkRoom to open it at startup
· Text antialiasing (where possible)
· Mouse-wheel scrolling
· Adjustable margins to fit any screen resolution (F9 to reset)
· Auto-save backups - so you never lose your work again
· Text search (F7 / Ctrl-F)
· A command-reminder strip can be displayed at the bottom of the screen
· Export to HTML using Markdown
· 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)

Requirements:

· Java 1.5 or later

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· 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