Comic Sans Serif isn't funny! (FAQ is wrong)

Thanks for the tip, Buz! Worked for me.

For comments, I use Lucida Console (my old eyes prefer 9 point)

BTW, the stylers.xml file N++ 4.0.1 uses can be found in:

\Documents and Settings\YOUR_LOGIN_NAME\Application Data\Notepad++

-Ken

I agree, the choice of font for comments is *very* annoying.
What I do is open "stylers.xml" in the directory where notepad++
saves its settings ( "[homedir]\Anwendungsdaten\Notepad++" on my german system )
and make a "find/replace" for the font name. Quick & dirty, but it works.

Otherwise, n++ is a great piece of software, thanks to the developers.

You have to remember to do a search and replace on font sizes too, since comments have that too. It's really annoying to have to do this whenever I install Notepad++ on a new PC.

Seriously.  This is the most irritating aspect of this otherwise great program.  I keep removing it, and it keeps coming back when I re-install.  I don't know why the developer can't just use default font settings (consistently sized monospace) that actually make sense for the majority of Notepad++ users (coders), and leave the crappy cartoon fonts for the small number of people who actually want them (if such people actually exist).

I'll try the stylers.xml trick

I went through C:\Program Files\Notepad++\stylers.xml and changed all

fontName="Comic Sans MS" --> fontName=""

fontSize="." and fontSize=".." --> fontSize=""

But my fonts still look dumb.  What else do I need to do?

Agreed, all true (but donate anyway, this program merits support IMHO)

Run replace with this regular expression (in stylers.xml):

Find what: fontName="Comic Sans MS" fontStyle="[0-9]"
Replace with: fontName="Dina" fontStyle="8"

As defaults, fonts designed for programmers would be dandy, Dina and Proggy come to mind:

http://www.dafont.com/dina.font
http://www.proggyfonts.com/

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/index.html

Easily scannable as zeros don't look like capital ohs etc.

apologies, fat fingered the regex, should be fontSize="8".

ooops

sorry.

Find what:
fontName="Comic Sans MS" +fontStyle="([0-9]*)" +fontSize="[0-9]*"

Replace with:
fontName="Dina" fontStyle="\1" fontSize="8"

I put Courier New in here and I see comments in this font in all the languages I use:

<GlobalStyles>
<!-- Attention : Don't modify the name of styleID="0" -->
    <WidgetStyle name="Default Style" styleID="32" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="0" fontSize="10" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Indent guideline style" styleID="37" fgColor="C0C0C0" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Brace highlight style" styleID="34" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="12" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Bad brace colour" styleID="35" fgColor="800000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Current line background colour" styleID="0" bgColor="E8E8FF" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Mark colour" styleID="0" fgColor="C00000" bgColor="FFFF00" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Selected text colour" styleID="0" bgColor="C0C0C0" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Caret colour" styleID="2069" fgColor="8000FF" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Find Mark Style" styleID="31" fgColor="FFFF00" bgColor="FF0000" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Edge colour" styleID="0" fgColor="80FFFF" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Line number margin" styleID="33" fgColor="808080" bgColor="E4E4E4" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Fold" styleID="0" fgColor="808080" bgColor="F3F3F3" />
    <WidgetStyle name="Fold margin" styleID="0" fgColor="FFFFFF" bgColor="E9E9E9" />
</GlobalStyles>