TextRoom
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Simple open-source full-screen rich text editor for writers. TextRoom is a free (as in freedom and free beer) full screen text editor developed especially writers in mind.
TextRoom and all other similar editors share one goal: to get you writing right away by providing distraction free environment to your liking, as well as familiar set of keyboard shortcuts to control its behavior. If you don't feel comfortable already with your editor of choice, you may find it useful.
TextRoom Features:
1. basic rich text editing: bold, italic, underline, and changing font, font size and color
2. configurable statusbar colors and fonts
3. configurable editor width and height
4. configurable behavior: full-screen on/off, auto save, flow mode (disable delete and backspace keys), load last document on startup, remember position in text for the last file
5. insert current time and/or date in a configurable fashion
6. live word count for all text and selected text
7. live character count option
8. configurable page count option
9. live clock on statusbar
10. targets: setting deadline from a graphical calendar
11. targets: setting a target word count
12. targets: setting short deadlines to write in minutes
13. keyboard shortcuts for the most common tasks (if you start the program for the first time, just press F1 for help)
14. typing sounds similar to a typewriter which can be disabled
15. cross-platform
16. Spellcheck with hunspell (US English and Turkish, for now.).
17. Universal Linux installer.
18. Printing support.
19. Background images.
20. Transparent statusbar.
21. File association with .txr files.
22. Restoring all settings to defaults.
23. Plain text only or rich text options.
The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this text editor software.