Dark Room

Well, Command-Shift-F fullscreen mode in mvim (Mac's vim gui, i'm not sure if it is also supported in gvim variants on X11) gives you the same if used with an appropriate colorscheme (I use vividchalk)

I read one of pg's essays not too long which had a section along the lines of, "too much in your view = too much to process." I started putting this idea into practice with a purging of nonsense in my work area and noticed a slight improvement.

I've been looking for something like this for a while. This app just needs to have a preference to disable alt + tab

Too late for me, as who wants to learn a bunch of obscure keyboard shortcuts? has already happened for me, and as a result, the keyboard shortcuts shown here are obscure to me as a result.

I approach this with emacs by turning off the menu bar and the icon bar.

I am not fond of the green on black.

Sometimes, I will use vim in a virtual terminal instead of my normal ubuntu desktop. The switch back and forth takes more time than a standard alt+tab which seems to trigger something in my brain to stick with it longer than using vim `normally'.

There's also q10, which is basically the same thing, I think.

http://www.baara.com/q10/

There's also pyroom -- http://pyroom.org/

It looks like it's Linux only at the moment (where I use it fairly often) but they say they're working on a windows install.