Need help to make emacs as fullcsreen edtior like writeroom

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I was discussing with a tamil writer, on his explorations of a good text editor.
As he is a lover of plaintext, his requirements are interesting to me.

We concluded that the below are the good requirements.

  1. Fullscreen editor
    The text editor should open in fullscreen modealways. No need of Top menu, side menu etc.

  2. Word Count
    Count of total words should be displayed in bottom or can be shown on any menu click action.
    Real time display is good. but not necessary.

    Wondered to see many text editors are counting the Tamil language words wrongly.
    Few text editors dont have that feature to count the words.

  3. dark mode
    A dark back ground and bright color for text is essential

  4. No additional colors
    Many text editors like vscode, show the text in different colors based on the syntax,
    which is unncessary.

  5. No syntax hightlighting
    no need to show the symbols, syntax in different colors

  6. show the linenumbers.
    showing linenumbers is good. but not essential.

  7. OS
    should be available for all computer operating systems like GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows

  8. Cost
    Should be free

  9. Configurable
    Good to have more configurable possibilities.

  10. font/size
    Default font and size should be confifurable.

Based on these requirements, I did an analysis of various text editors.

Will give detailed analysis for all text editors later.

I hope, emacs can be a perfect for all these requirements.

I need the below features in Emacs.

  1. open emacs in fullscreeen by default
  2. Open in writeroom-mode by default
  3. if possible, show the word count in the mode line, in the writeroom mode.
    if mode line is not possible in write room mode, add a menu item to get the words count
  4. if possible show line numbers or give menu item for it.
  5. Load the theme “tango-dark” by default.
  6. Set the normal short keys for the below operations.
(cua-mode t)
(delete-selection-mode t)

(global-set-key (kbd "<left>") 'backward-char)
(global-set-key (kbd "<right>") 'forward-char)
(global-set-key (kbd "<up>") 'previous-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "<down>") 'next-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-f") 'isearch-forward)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-r") 'query-replace)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-S-h") 'query-replace-regexp)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-s") 'save-buffer)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-a") 'mark-whole-buffer)

By setting the above in emacs config file, we can get
Open = Ctrl + O
Cut = Ctrl + x
Copy = Ctrl + c
Paste = Ctrl + v
Undo = Ctrl + z

But, the File menu, shows the default keys of emacs only.
Need to edit the short keys shown on the file menu too, so that it will be in sync.

Please help to set all these for emacs.

here is the my emacs config I am trying to achieve all these.

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some of the bits I can think of

;; fullscreen
(toggle-frame-fullscreen)
(writeroom-mode t)
;; or add hook to text mode
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook #'writeroom-mode)

;; load tango theme
(load-theme 'tango-dark t)

;; M-= to cound words or do M-x count (to see commands)

(global-display-line-numbers-mode t)
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We need to unset the old key and set the new keys then the changes will be reflected

;; Unset the default save key binding
(global-unset-key (kbd "C-x C-s"))

;; Bind C-s to save-buffer
(global-set-key (kbd "C-s") 'save-buffer)

Also arrows keys works by default we don’t need to set it.

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we can add our own menus using the below code, I have created My menu and add count word menu item in it.

(defun my-count-words ()
  "Count the number of words in the current buffer and display the count."
  (interactive)
  (let ((word-count (count-words (point-min) (point-max))))
    (message "Word count: %d" word-count)))

(require 'easy-mmode)

(easy-menu-define my-custom-menu
  global-map
  "My Custom Menu"
  '("My Menu"
    ["count words" my-count-words t]
    "---"
    ["Quit" save-buffers-kill-terminal t]))