![]() ![]() I’ve even come to wonder what I truly meant and was feeling. In the course of writing this article, I’ve come to wonder if my overly-jubilant expression of passion in that original tweet was actually correct. Similar to Writer, it removes all the panels, toolbars, menus, and buttons and just shows you the code. When so, enter Distraction-Free mode, which you can see below, and you can do just that. Sometimes, you just want to focus on the section of code you’re working on. However, you don’t always need them to be present. Given there’s so many tasks involved in making software, such as writing, debugging, testing - as well as the other related tools - this is perfectly logical. ![]() Normally, as you’d expect with software-development software, by default there are a hell of a lot of options available to choose from. Then there’s the distraction-free mode in PhpStorm, my current IDE of choice. That’s quite handy, but ironically I find it sometimes more distracting than not having it. What’s more, you can go one step further, into what they call “Focus Mode”.Īs you can see in the image below, it blurs out everything except the active sentence. There are options available for highlighting, word and character count, and time spent writing, which you can see below. You can see here that, by default, only the writing area is visible. One of the best implementations of it - at least that I’m aware of - is Writer, by iA software. What is Distraction-Free?ĭistraction-free is a term that’s been going around for some time, often used to describe software which allows you to work with a minimum of visual clutter and, by logically extension, distraction.īy visual clutter, I specifically mean such things as buttons, toolbars, and other UI elements. ![]() However, owing to a full workload, family, and ongoing health issues, I’ve not felt that I had the time, until now.īut first, a little bit of clarification. His tweet lead me to think, deeply, on what I’d written, for some time.Īnd for all of that time I’d meant to take the time to further clarify exactly what I meant. However, not so long after I’d sent the tweet, Stuart Herbert replied asking why I felt that way. As it’s been quite some time since, I honestly don’t remember exactly what it was that motivated me to do so. A little while ago, I took to Twitter in a sense of jubilant excitement announcing that VIM was THE distraction-free editor. ![]()
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