I’ve been using Hog Bay Software’s WriteRoom more and more for popping a Writeboard out to full-screen on my laptop. I use Firefox as my browser and use the extension It’s All Text to give each textarea an edit button.

Recently, the developer of WriteRoom added a very handy feature: an option to save automatically when you quit. This means you can hit edit, have your Writeboard show up immediately in full-screen, do some editing, hit Cmd-Q, and be back to the updated Writeboard without having to answer “Do you want to save? Yes/No”.

The only bad news is, it’s Leopard-only: http://hogbaysoftware.com/forums/writeroom/topics/671_New_WriteRoom_Leopard_Test_52_

It will probably also work with the “Edit in Writeroom” functionality in Safari, but I haven’t tried it.

Hey Mamster,

Thanks for the tip. A question though…

In the “It’s All Text” Firefox plug-in, you can define an editor. I tried to point it to ”/Applications/WriteRoom.app”, but it just sends me an error.

Is there a way to define WriteRoom the default editor for It’s All Text? Otherwise, you’re stuck defining all .txt files as WriteRoom, which I would prefer not to do.

Roy

/Applications/WriteRoom.app/Contents/MacOS/WriteRoom

or, /usr/bin/open /Applications/WriteRoom.app should also work.