the write tools for every job

In this old post (back in 2004) I ranted about how I wanted a program for writing that took over the whole computer screen… no menus or anything. And now today I saw a guy here at work using iTerm in full screen mode. This was basically EXACTLY what I’d been looking for back in the day.

Now, I’ve been resisting the switch to iTerm, mostly because I usually “work” on a linux box, and only end up using my laptop for programming on trips or when I’m working in Flash (on my puzzle games). Anyway, Terminal has been “good enough” for my purposes thus far.

But suddenly (for a little more than the last week) I’ve been working on a (completely asinine) front-end project (ie, javascript), where I need to keep my PC booted into windows for IE testing. I’ve also recently upgraded to 10.5, and I’ve been enjoying the tabs in the new Terminal. At first, this was just another reason Terminal was “good enough” for my purposes, but now I’m upgrading to iTerm RIGHT NOW.

So then, after raving about how great this was, and how I’ve been wanting to do that for AGES, my co-workers point out there is another writing-specific application for mac that has the full-screen idea as its basic premise. It’s called WriteRoom, and looks pretty cool to me. I’m guessing that I’ll stick to vim and iTerm, but I might download it and give it a try sometime anyway. It’s got a nice price tag, if I did decide to buy.

This makes me wish (yet again) that I were doing nanowrimo this year.