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Textmate Envy (aka: Monaco Font for Windows)

Aug 14, 2006 General, Web Dev

If your stuck in the world of developing on a Windows platform, chances are you’ve become quite envious of Textmate on the mac, especially if your a follower of the Ruby on Rails guys.

While I don’t offer a Textmate for the PC, I did find a version of the Monaco font (which Textmate uses by default) so that we PC users can be 1 step closer to a Textmate app for the PC.

PS: If anybody wants to develop a Textmate app for Windws , let me know. While my desktop application development skills are few and far between I would be willing to host, design, create & maintain a website for the project.

Link to file: Monaco.ttf

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33 Responses to “Textmate Envy (aka: Monaco Font for Windows)”

Hakaslak Says:

December 27th, 2006 at 2:38 am
Woot!

Thanks for this!

No more Courier New for me!!!

Might even sIFR it for codeview stuff.
malikyte Says:

January 9th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
TextMate-esque for Windows (Alpha), Intype.info
Zuwiki Says:

February 1st, 2007 at 1:28 am
e-texteditor.com

awesome.
salman Says:

February 3rd, 2007 at 3:12 am
textmate on windows(close).
http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2006/textmate_on_windows
salman Says:

February 3rd, 2007 at 3:15 am
thanks for the font. and check the post above if you are interested in a product close to textmate.

What about Visual Studio. its more than decent. and if you want intellisense, surely someone out there has written the XML snippets for VS to work on Ruby.
justinjohnson Says:

February 3rd, 2007 at 8:22 am
Intype.info I think is going to become my new favorite once it gets a little more mature.

salman: a quick google returned:
http://www.sapphiresteel.com/

It’s not free but it’s designed to be an IDE for Ruby on Rails in Visual Studio
Palaniraja Says:

June 10th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Hey dude!

Thanks for the font! atlast I found a nice replacement to courier new
Why my dreamweaver looks more beautiful? « me & PHP Says:

June 11th, 2007 at 9:55 am
[...] Why my dreamweaver looks more beautiful? I don’t find an alternative title. As like anyone out there I also envy on Textmate features where it is in almost all the screencast for PHP & RoR out there. So I started looking for a Textmate alternate on windows, then I come to this post Textmate envy. I tried the font Monaco, looks beautiful in only Firebug not in my Dreamweaver. With disappointment I started googling for any other download for the font Monaco, then I found this link Programmers font so I am not alone, there are more people out there looking for the suitable replacement to Courier New (isn’t the time to change?). I tried few Monaca, Dejavu, Bitstream Vera. [...]
phantomdata Says:

June 14th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
A little late to the party, but you should check out e Text Editor @ http://www.e-texteditor.com/.
OSX Visitor Says:

June 14th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Textmate for OSX - there are no alternatives! As someone else said, almost all screencasts for PHP & RoR use Textmate.

When all the experts use a certain platform you know there is a reason for it. I moved to OSX for Web Development and I’ve never looked back!
Peter Says:

July 28th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I tried Monaco in DreamWeaver too and it does not look great.
Currently I prefer Segoe UI.
Keith Says:

August 29th, 2007 at 7:02 am
Thanks for this font. I use TextMate on my mac but my main development environment is, alas my windows machine - as someone has pointed out, e-texteditor is TextMate for windows, a wonderful program and a life saver for me. This monaco font is now the cherry on the cake - thanks for this!!
datazoo Says:

October 22nd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Netbeans 6.0 Beta looks quite nice with the dark theme (i.e. very similar to TextMate) and is Open Source:

http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/ruby_screenshot_of_the_week19

I use the free Anonymous font on Windows instead of Monaco now.
http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html
Josh Says:

October 26th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Awesome tip!
Sra Says:

February 14th, 2008 at 8:10 am
As for a Textmate for PC, why not try Emacs (EmacsW32 for PC)?

The learning curve is a bit steep, but http://www.emacswiki.org is there for you.

After years of usage, I can’t find a thing I can’t do with Emacs — and most of the time someone else has already done it for me. And it works on Mac too!

You might miss a few features at first, but I’m sure you’ll soon discover Emacs features that you’ll miss in Textmate, making it even.

Cheers!
links for 2008-03-13 « dstelow notes… Says:

March 13th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
[...] WebDev Kungfu Â» Blog Archive Â» Textmate Envy (aka: Monaco Font for Windows) …did find a version of the Monaco font (which Textmate uses by default) so that we PC users can be 1 step closer to a Textmate app for the PC. (tags: dev ide font windows editor) [...]
Joseph Says:

June 12th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Thanks a Million, our company uses Win the whole way and I’m used to the Look and feel of beautiful mac.
Sergiy S. Tkachenko Says:

August 22nd, 2008 at 3:13 am
Can you plan to make a support for Cyrillic?
Lukasz Says:

October 26th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Oh yes - that’s what my E (the texteditor ;)) was missing - the Monaco font. Thank you
zmeeagain Says:

October 28th, 2008 at 6:13 am
How about the greek missing characters?
pain!pain!pain! Says:

January 27th, 2009 at 11:04 am
thank you for this. switching to putty is so much easier now with monaco font. f000k courier!!!
Arabic Calligraphy Says:

February 1st, 2009 at 7:15 am
E text editor costs, but there’s a free alternative that is just as good. Try intype (www.intype.info) to get almost all the functionality of textmate on windows. And on windows, Consolas looks a lot better than Monaco…but I guess that’s subjective.
aozora Says:

May 19th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
thank you for this, it’s reall helpful…
Chris Harrison Says:

May 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 am
If you’re looking for a great monospace font for Mac or Windows, you HAVE to check out Inconsolata: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

It’s free, as in beer.
Mike Says:

May 24th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Monaco not looking to well on windows.

Editor: try Notepad++ with QuickText plugin, it’s really great.
Tim Says:

August 10th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Where did you find Monaco.ttf?
kurye Says:

August 18th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
WebDevKungfu » Blog Archive » Textmate Envy (aka: Monaco Font for Windows) | Web Development, Web Design, Coldfusion, Rails, Ruby on Rails, PHP blog great article thank you.
Jay Williams Says:

September 27th, 2009 at 11:29 am
For a Windows clone of TextMate, check out TextShell.
http://textshell.co.uk/

It’s not perfect, but it’s the best clone I’ve found so far.
Bernadette Jakobsen Says:

October 10th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Hey, this is an interesting project. The idea itself is also very good … Keep going on!
DJ Berlin Says:

October 17th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Awesome idea…. very useful, alsofor my future projects.
Big hug from frank
Demi Moore Says:

October 28th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” - Abraham Lincoln
Demi Moore
DJ Hochzeit München Says:

November 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 am
Thank you very much for this article.
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