60 Free Textmate & Notepad++ Styler Themes

A while back I posted an article on how to make Notepad++ look like Textmate’s Ruby theme. Today, thanks to one of our reader’s comment, I’ve found a way to port ANY Textmate theme over to Notepad++. Sweet! So here’s the quick and easy How-to…

Step 1. Assuming you already have Notepad++ installed, navigate your browser over to the Textmate Theme Directory.

Step 2. Choose a rad looking theme and download it.

Step 3. Fire up Notepad++ and open the .tmTheme file you just downloaded.

Step 4. Select all (Ctrl+A) and copy (Ctrl+C)

Step 5. Now navigate your browser over to the theme converter page.

Step 6. Paste what you copied from Notepad++ into the big textbox and click the download button and save the file.

Step 7. In Explorer, navigate to:
C:\Documents and Settings\%%USERNAME%%\Application Data\Notepad++\

Step 8. Locate the original styler theme file (stylers.xml) and rename it to something like original.stylers.xml

Step 9. Take the file you downloaded from Step 6 and move it to the location in Step 7.

Step 10. Rename the file you just moved to stylers.xml

Step 11. Close Notepad++ and reopen it.

Step 12. Enjoy your new colors!

* Huge thanks to Fabio for making the conversion tool!