PyRoom is a fullscreen simple text editor, without a toolbar, a menubar or anything that would distract the user from his most important task: writing.

Writeroom is a full-screen text editor, without buttons, menu, formatting, so you can focus on writing, and only writing.

Writeroom is only for Mac, and costs $24.95. PyRoom is its clone, written in Python GTK, Free and free.

There are a few keys allowing you to perform a few useful commands:
· Control-H: Show help in a new buffer
· Control-I: Show buffer information
· Control-L: Toggle line number
· Control-N: Create a new buffer
· Control-O: Open a file in a new buffer
· Control-Q: Quit
· Control-S: Save current buffer
· Control-Shift-S: Save current buffer as
· Control-W: Close buffer and exit if it was the last buffer
· Control-Y: Redo last typing
· Control-Z: Undo last typing
· Control-Page Up: Switch to previous buffer
· Control-Page Down: Switch to next buffer
· Control-Plus: Increases font size
· Control-Minus: Decreases font size

Here are some key features of "PyRoom":

· no visual clutter
· work on multiple documents at once (main text, outline, etc)
· control PyRoom via keyboard shortcuts
· autosave your work
· check wordcounts on keypress
· choose from preconfigured designs or create your own color scheme
· further customize visual appearance and whitespace (line spacing, border, padding...)

Requirements:

· Python
· PyGTK
· gtksourceview

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

· Updated tarball with fixed installer

Bugfixes:
· fix locales installation (LP:#355272)
· restored python2.4 compatibility (LP:#348613)
· use correct path for locales (LP:#348927)
· don't fail when canceling theme save dialog (LP:#348470)
· fixed untranslatable string (LP:#348931)
· removed gtk as a build dependency (LP:#348742)
· fixed keyboard shortcuts on non-qwert layouts (LP:#349715)
· don't offer to save unchanged buffers (LP:#353718)

Noteable background changes:
· switched to gtk accelerators for shortcuts (re: LP:#349715)