When writing scripts and such, it would be nice to write in a text field that uses a mono spaced font. Is this possible?
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Hey @fnurl,
Note the preformatted-text (or code) button in the forum editor.
Backticks can be used for inline monospaced font items.
This line is backticked
Triple-backticks may also be used for code-blocks.
set x to "One"
set y to "Two"
set z to "Three"
-Chris
Monospaced would be nice for script actions, too:
printf "Proportional fonts are hard to read: these are 3 different characters: I|l"
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There is no current way to do that. Added to the very long todo list.
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Hey Tom,
The best way to handle that at present is to use TextEdit as the display mechanism.
printf "Proportional fonts are hard to read: these are 3 different characters: I|l" | open -f
AppleScript will give more options still.
-Chris
Chris, I think you misread that. I meant the input field (edit field) of a script action, as shown in the screenshot above.
In KM’s output window the font already is monospaced:
Hey Tom,
Sure enough.
I hadn't noticed that the Execute a Shell Script action's output was monospaced now either which is good to know.
-Chris
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Arrived here from Google and the monospace formatting would be amazing indeed 
This can be done with the font specifications described in the Preferences.
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor Font-Normal -string "Monaco"
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor Font-Shell -string "USER"
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor Font-AppleScript -string "FIXED"
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor Font-JavaScript -string "SYSTEM"
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor Font-Swift -string "Times"
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor Font-HTML -string "Courier:25"
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor Font-JSON -string "Marker Felt:10"
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor Font-Comment -string "Palatino:20"
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor Font-Shell -string "FIXED"
will use a fixed width font in the Execute a Shell Script action.
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Which of these sets the font in the Display Text action?
None, it is always the system user fixed pitch font.
Which Display Text action?
Display Text in a Window takes on the styles the user has emplaced in the action.
It would be nice to be able to set a default for that, but I've just created some favorite actions with a few preferred font styles.
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See:
You can configure the fonts used for the various action text views with:
Here's how I have mine set:
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor Font-Shell -string "Menlo:14"
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Thanks. Exactly what I needed.
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Hi. I try to find a way to change font style in Display in Text - output window.
defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor Font-Shell -string "Monaco:12"
I failed with this line on my machine.
Please see the above Pic.
with the method in this POST.
I successed with cmd-T method.
But today, things go worse. Please see the below Pic.
in this kind of structure:
use the defaults write method, failed.
use cmd-T method, failed.
Hope people help me
Might you get more control by writing yourself a subroutine which uses the Custom Floating HTML Prompt action ?
(Then you can quickly experiment and refine with CSS tweaks)
If you are doing this a lot, set up a "Display Text" action with the font formatting that you want, then make it a Favourite action.
You can have different formatting in the one "Display Text" action:
...so perhaps you aren't overwriting some existing choices? Try clicking in the text field, ⌘A, then setting your format options.
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But actually I am not a programmer. I think Applescript is my limit.
I always want to learn HTML. Since it was mentioned a lot here.
But cannot find a friendly instruction for non-programmer.
