write in the vim room?

ever since i first saw it i always liked the idea of writeroom, but since i'm not writing that much on a regular basis i never bothered to get a license and give it a real spin. then, a couple of days ago, the latest macheist gave away free licenses with their "nanoBundle" plus i also had the need to write some slightly longer document...

but essentially from the moment i started i badly missed the vi-bindings i've grown used to — at least when writing text. after a bit of poking i found that macvim also support full-screen mode! however, even after mimicking the color scheme it was still a bit cumbersome to get going: fire up macvim, activate the color scheme, get rid of visually annoying scrollbars, increase the font size and finally hit ⇧⌘F...

so to cut the story short, here's my current workaround:

• step 1: put the following into ~/.vim/fullscreen.vim

  " vim fullscreen mode
  
  set background=dark
  set guifont=Monaco:h17
  set guioptions=egmLtT
  set lines=40 columns=80
  
  " `fullscreen` needs to go after `lines` etc
  set fuoptions=
  set fullscreen
  
  highlight clear
  highlight Normal     guifg=#00a000      guibg=Black
  highlight NonText    guifg=#002000
  highlight Search     guifg=Black        guibg=#606000   gui=bold
  highlight Visual     guifg=#404040                      gui=bold
  highlight Cursor     guifg=Black        guibg=Green     gui=bold
  highlight Special    guifg=#004000
  highlight Comment    guifg=#008000
  highlight StatusLine guifg=blue         guibg=white
  highlight Statement  guifg=#004000                      gui=NONE
  highlight constant   guifg=#005000                      gui=NONE
  highlight preproc    guifg=#005000                      gui=NONE
  highlight Type                                          gui=NONE
  

• step 2: add this line to your ~/.bashrc

  alias fvim="mvim -S ~/.vim/fullscreen.vim"

• step 3: fire it up...

  $ fvim README.txt

• step 4: focus!