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JDarkRoom 100.0

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

Features:

- 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


v100.0
- 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

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