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Modifying Textmate drawer font size

If you are like me and hate how small the font’s are in Textmates drawer, don’t get mad get modificlisious. You must have Xcode installed. Don’t worry about messing around with Interface builder files for apps because when you save the nibs they save a backup. Here’s how to modify the font size in Textmates drawer:

  • Browse to the application and right click or ctrl click => show package content
  • Go Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ => open Project.nib
  • In the project window double click on the FileHierarchy icon
  • Now the FileHierarchy window should open so click on the drawer in the FileHierarchy window
  • Press Apple T or go Format => show fonts from the menu set
  • Now just select the font you want to use and the size
  • You should see the fonts change
  • Save and relaunch Textmate!

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  1. Indy Nagpal
    11. Dec, 2009 at 2:45 am #

    Thanks for this tip. It is nice to be able to change the font type and size. It was bugging me!

    It is surprising that TextMate does not provide an easier way to do this.