Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Notepad2 Theme

xmlfileI love Notepad2. It is the “basic” text editor that should ship in Windows. It is one of the first things I download on a new system, I replace notepad with it, then I add the context menu to open any file in notepad2. I have recently moved to a dark color theme for all my text editors and base them all off the Coding Instinct Visual Studio color scheme. Here is a settings file for Notepad2 that is based on the Coding Instinct Visual Studio color scheme.

I have changed all the supported languages in the configuration, but I have not tested them all. Some may not be 100% correct, or there may be a color that just doesn’t look right on the dark background.

To import the theme follow the following steps:

  • Download the theme file
  • Open Notepad2
  • Press Ctrl+F12, or click View –> Customize Schemes
  • Click on Import
  • Select the downloaded theme file

Fixed link to the download. Seems like skydrive changed the link on me.

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3 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 6, 2010 at 12:07 AM

    Tried to download your theme as it is exactly what I was looking for, but the link seems broken.

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  2. Darth MinosSeptember 17, 2010 at 6:12 PM

    Try the link now, i updated it. Skydrive changed the link on me or something.

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  3. CarlNovember 20, 2010 at 1:28 AM

    Awesome, just what I was looking for.

    Long live notepad2!

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Notepad2 Theme

xmlfileI love Notepad2. It is the “basic” text editor that should ship in Windows. It is one of the first things I download on a new system, I replace notepad with it, then I add the context menu to open any file in notepad2. I have recently moved to a dark color theme for all my text editors and base them all off the Coding Instinct Visual Studio color scheme. Here is a settings file for Notepad2 that is based on the Coding Instinct Visual Studio color scheme.

I have changed all the supported languages in the configuration, but I have not tested them all. Some may not be 100% correct, or there may be a color that just doesn’t look right on the dark background.

To import the theme follow the following steps:

  • Download the theme file
  • Open Notepad2
  • Press Ctrl+F12, or click View –> Customize Schemes
  • Click on Import
  • Select the downloaded theme file

Fixed link to the download. Seems like skydrive changed the link on me.