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June 15, 2007

Vibrant Ink, Visual Studio and Vim settings

VS and Vim Settings

I'm a big fan of the Vibrant Ink theme for Textmate. I spent some time last year porting the color scheme to both vim and Visual Studio - that's what you can see in the screenshot. I'm releasing my _vimrc and vssettings files if you want to experiment with this stuff in your local configuration.

I also use ViEmu in Visual Studio so that I can use the same keybindings everywhere. This is especially important if you're doing Windows development on a Macbook Pro since there are missing keys - and the key chords that you have to use daily on a MBP to achieve equivalent functionality to a standard PC keyboard are annoying at best, or will lead to RSI at worst.

You may notice an inconsistency between my vim and VS settings. I was a two-space indent guy before coming to the company, but everyone else around here has a thing for four-space (not tab- yay!) ident, so I caved.

Update: I'm an even bigger fan of Fusion now, since the crazy race condition problem for grabbing a wireless network connection here on corpnet seems to be gone. This problem manifests itself when I suspend my MBP by closing its lid. When I open the lid, both the Mac OS and Windows machines try to grab their own wireless connection on corpnet (I cannot use NAT). Under Parallels, this would result in my laptop getting booted off corpnet (maybe 50% of the time) until I shut down Parallels, waited until my host OS got a connection to corpnet, and then restarted Parallels. This wasted a ton of time, and resulted in me walking around a lot with the lid open ...

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Thanks for sharing John! What XP theme do you use?

That's a pretty nice style, John. I find it a bit "too vibrant" for me, but pretty good still :)

I had heard about VIMEmu but for some reason I had not bothered to try it... maybe I will soon!

Thanks! Got it up and working on my version of Visual Studio - This is great!

Thanks John, much appreciated.

So sweet - thanks! The contrast seems a bit too high, but having a VibrantInk look-alike in Visual Studio is great!

@Mike Sax,

If not mistaken, that's the Zune theme. You can download it from go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75078

Hello John,

I created a .vim colorscheme based on your initial work:

http://blog.jozilla.net/2006/10/5/vibrantink-theme-for-vim

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1794

Maybe it's good to team up and integrate both our work into one colorscheme?

I am a little late to comment, but what is it about Vibrant Ink that is appealing?

Is it aesthetics alone or does it help with reading and understanding the code in some way?

Great work John, looks even better when you set the font to: "Lucida Sans Typewriter"

John, thank you very much for your fantastic job. I have just announced your theme on my blog! Good work!

Thank you very much.

What's your windows skin? and which software do u use?

I noticed you mentioned the diff between spaces and tabs. I've always used tabs but recently move to a company using spaces (2). Seems more personal preference, or Unix vs Windows?

What's your pros/cons of using either/or?

I can't seem to hit the right google search phrase today. Thanks.

Very nice - but I can't get NAntAddin to appear when I've got these setting imported. Anyone else have that issue?

Cool Theme. Thanks a lot for sharing !!!

If you use TAB instead of space, it allows the user to set how to represent that indentation.

Say you like the 2 char indent and I like 4. If we both keep TABs, then the source is the same, just our individual IDE's know how to draw them to our liking.

If we each replace tab with spaces, every time I reformat source you created, the entire source appears to have changed.

Why does anyone use spaces?

This is excellent theme than anyone else.

but Ctrl+F, Search box is not working. Dialog Box is not displying.

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