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Posted by Jenny Swift
Jenny Swift
21,999 Points

sublime text 2 custom theme

Hi, is there an easy way please to add a custom theme to Sublime Text 2? I mean, change the background color, text and highlighting colors. I could do this really easily in TextMate. If there isn't an easy way, is there a hard way? ;)

5 Answers

Graham Davidson
PLUS
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points
Graham Davidson
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points

I have always used this Jenny - currently rocking out the Tron Legacy Theme http://colorsublime.com/

Jenny Swift
Jenny Swift
21,999 Points
Jenny Swift
Jenny Swift
21,999 Points

Thanks Graham. However I was hoping for something where I could actually customize the colors how I like them, i.e make the theme myself rather than pick an already-made theme. In TextMate I can just go to preferences, fonts and colors, and there I get a wide choice of colors and for lots of different things like background, foreground, selections, markup tags etc.

Pablo Litardo
Pablo Litardo
6,241 Points
Pablo Litardo
Pablo Litardo
6,241 Points

That would be nice ! I know its not what your looking for you have probably already figured it out but you can go to preferences and change the color scheme, just wanted to point it out :)

Jenny Swift
Jenny Swift
21,999 Points

yeah, I'd seen that, but thanks. :)

dxoxiifezd
dxoxiifezd
19,729 Points
dxoxiifezd
dxoxiifezd
19,729 Points

Here: http://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com/

Jenny Swift
Jenny Swift
21,999 Points

That looks good, thank you. I've downloaded it from github, also customised and downloaded my theme, but how do I actually use it it Sublime Text please? I'm not familiar with files ending in .tmTheme.

dxoxiifezd
dxoxiifezd
19,729 Points
dxoxiifezd
dxoxiifezd
19,729 Points

If you are using Sublime Text 2, go to Preferences -> Browse Packages... Next, look for a folder called 'User'. Copy (or move) the .tmTheme file into User folder. And select the theme in Preferences -> Color Scheme -> User

Jenny Swift
Jenny Swift
21,999 Points

Excellent! Thank you so much :)