Emacs as a distraction free environment

Emacs as a distraction free environment

[Bastien]

People might find this useful:
http://bzg.fr/emacs-strip-tease.html

I'm quite happy living with no mode-line for a few months,
temporarily displaying it as a header is fine so far.

Enjoy,

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Re: Emacs as a distraction free environment

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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() Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
() Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:22:17 +0100

   http://bzg.fr/emacs-strip-tease.html

You can use ‘rotatef’ to swap the values of two variables.

(defvar stashed-mode-line-format nil
  "Storage for `toggle-mode-line'.")

(defun toggle-mode-line ()
  "Toggle visibility of mode line."
  (interactive)
  (rotatef mode-line-format
           stashed-mode-line-format))
  
I don't know if this works w/ ‘defvar-local’ vars, however.

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Re: Emacs as a distraction free environment

[Bastien]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:

> () Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
> () Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:22:17 +0100
>
>    http://bzg.fr/emacs-strip-tease.html
>
> You can use ‘rotatef’ to swap the values of two variables.

Oh, good to know, thanks!

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 Bastien

Re: Emacs as a distraction free environment

[Glyn Millington]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> () Bastien <bzg@altern.org> () Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:22:17 +0100
>> http://bzg.fr/emacs-strip-tease.html
>> You can use ‘rotatef’ to swap the values of two variables.
>
> Oh, good to know, thanks!


Have you come across Writeroom mode, available on MELPA?  It provides
similar (but not identical) functionality. 

atb

Glyn

Re: Emacs as a distraction free environment

[Rasmus]

Bastien,

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> People might find this useful:
> http://bzg.fr/emacs-strip-tease.html
>
> I'm quite happy living with no mode-line for a few months,
> temporarily displaying it as a header is fine so far.

Looks nice.

Would you consider making a minor-mode for this to toggle that could
be distributed in ELPA or Emacs?  I currently use writeroom-mode for
this, but your setup looks quite nice as well.

–Rasmus

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Re: Emacs as a distraction free environment

[Bastien]

Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:

> Have you come across Writeroom mode, available on MELPA?  It provides
> similar (but not identical) functionality. 

I just checked.  Nice and very similar indeed.

Setting the margin instead of the fringe makes sense.

Not sure I will turn this into a mode, the real value of the
tutorial is in `hidden-mode-line-mode', `bzg-big-fringe-mode',
and `mode-line-header'...

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 Bastien

Re: Emacs as a distraction free environment

[henry atting]

> People might find this useful:
> http://bzg.fr/emacs-strip-tease.html
>
> I'm quite happy living with no mode-line for a few months,
> temporarily displaying it as a header is fine so far.
>
> Enjoy,

Great!
First time I see a perfect twin of my emacs (except the color theme).

henry

RE: Emacs as a distraction free environment

[Drew Adams]

> You can use ‘rotatef’ to swap the values of two variables.
> 
>  (rotatef mode-line-format stashed-mode-line-format))

Or as we say in Lisp...

(setq A  (prog1 B (setq B  A))) ; Swap A and B

Re: Emacs as a distraction free environment

[Emanuel Berg]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> I'm quite happy living with no mode-line for a few
> months, temporarily displaying it as a header is fine
> so far.

That Emacs has less distractions, and where it has, it
is configurable/programmable, is the number one reason
it had such an impact on my life. While programming
(and in general computer activity) is *interesting*
even in a MS Access interface or a GUI web browser, it
just isn't *enjoyable* to actually *do*. Emacs brought
those in synch.

As for the mode line, I agree it is a bit crowded by
default, though I suspect most people don't have a
problem with that. I configured my mode line
mode-by-mode in a way that I think now is obsolete
because there is a mode line package that should be
simple enough. Anyway, check out

http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/mode_line.png

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Re: Emacs as a distraction free environment

[Bastien]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/mode_line.png

Very nice, thanks!

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 Bastien

Re: Emacs as a distraction free environment

[Joost Kremers]

Rasmus wrote:
> Bastien,
>
> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>
>> People might find this useful:
>> http://bzg.fr/emacs-strip-tease.html
>>
>> I'm quite happy living with no mode-line for a few months,
>> temporarily displaying it as a header is fine so far.
>
> Looks nice.
>
> Would you consider making a minor-mode for this to toggle that could
> be distributed in ELPA or Emacs?  I currently use writeroom-mode for
> this, but your setup looks quite nice as well.

Yeah, it does. I might steal^Hborrow some ideas for writeroom-mode...

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Re: Emacs as a distraction free environment

[Bastien]

Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> writes:

> Yeah, it does. I might steal^Hborrow some ideas for
> writeroom-mode...

:)

One thing I just added is this:

(add-hook 'after-change-major-mode-hook 'hidden-mode-line-mode)

so that the mode-line is automatically hidden in all modes.
This requires the latest version of `hidden-mode-line-mode'.

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