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LibreOffice has a full-screen mode. If you enable it and also disable Rulers and Text Boundaries then you see only the pages, the text, and a scroll bar at the

by mrob 6y ago

LibreOffice has a full-screen mode. If you enable it and also disable Rulers and Text Boundaries then you see only the pages, the text, and a scroll bar at the edge of the screen (unless your GUI toolkit has vanishing scrollbars enabled, which is IMO more distracting). Run it on a laptop without Internet access and nothing else installed for minimal distraction.

jsilence 6y ago
Like a X200 Where you remove or disable the Wifi card. Sturdy machines with a decent keyboard. Wondering how long it will take for someone to take up the task of configuring a veeery simplistic 'JustWriteOS' that optimized on distraction free writing. Should be possible to build this upon Alpine or NixOS with a tiling window manager preconfigured to only start the text editor full screen in distraction free mode. Decent sleep mode configuration would be nice tho
- Ericson2314 6y ago
  Maybe once https://github.com/nix-windows https://github.com/nix-windows is working better, make a distro just for WordPerfect for DOS itself!
Pxtl 6y ago
My biggest problem with things like that is there's still all the mental overhead of styling clutter. You copy and paste something from a webpage and it's all mangled. I think half the success of markdown is identifying a useful subset of html/document languages and saying "this is your whole featureset, everything else is out of scope for composition".
- krastanov 6y ago
  Ctrl+shift+P is "unstyled paste" on many systems. It is what I use when copying between documents/webpages/etc.
  - spurgu 6y ago
    Ctrl+Shift+V (or Cmd+Shift+V on Mac) usually does the trick.
    - krastanov 6y ago
      Well, that was a stupid typo of mine, of course it is V, not P. Too late to edit that post.
  - Pxtl 6y ago
    Works on far too few things. I find I just paste into notepad more often than not. But then you lose styling you like such as hyperlinks, bullets, bold/italic-for-emphasis, etc. Which comes back to Markdown, which is the "useful subset".
tomjen3 6y ago
MS Word has something similar, if not exactly the same if you go to View->Focus.

by mrob 6y ago

jsilence 6y ago

Like a X200 Where you remove or disable the Wifi card. Sturdy machines with a decent keyboard. Wondering how long it will take for someone to take up the task of configuring a veeery simplistic 'JustWriteOS' that optimized on distraction free writing. Should be possible to build this upon Alpine or NixOS with a tiling window manager preconfigured to only start the text editor full screen in distraction free mode. Decent sleep mode configuration would be nice tho

Ericson2314 6y ago
Maybe once https://github.com/nix-windows https://github.com/nix-windows is working better, make a distro just for WordPerfect for DOS itself!

Pxtl 6y ago

My biggest problem with things like that is there's still all the mental overhead of styling clutter. You copy and paste something from a webpage and it's all mangled. I think half the success of markdown is identifying a useful subset of html/document languages and saying "this is your whole featureset, everything else is out of scope for composition".

krastanov 6y ago
Ctrl+shift+P is "unstyled paste" on many systems. It is what I use when copying between documents/webpages/etc.
- spurgu 6y ago
  Ctrl+Shift+V (or Cmd+Shift+V on Mac) usually does the trick.
  - krastanov 6y ago
    Well, that was a stupid typo of mine, of course it is V, not P. Too late to edit that post.
- Pxtl 6y ago
  Works on far too few things. I find I just paste into notepad more often than not. But then you lose styling you like such as hyperlinks, bullets, bold/italic-for-emphasis, etc. Which comes back to Markdown, which is the "useful subset".

tomjen3 6y ago

MS Word has something similar, if not exactly the same if you go to View->Focus.