Monthly Archives: October 2006

EDM News

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It’s been a while since my last post, so this is a quick update of what’s been happening lately.

On Monday and Tuesday the TAMODIA 2006 workshop was hosted at our institute. I joined a few interesting sessions. It was nice to meet again a lot of people I saw earlier this year at CADUI 2006. We also had an interesting keynote by Joëlle Coutaz.

Yesterday, my office mate Jan succesfully defended his dissertation, titled High-Level User Interface Models for Model-Driven Design of Context-Sensitive User Interfaces. So we can call him dr. Jan now ;-)

Johan (see the picture below) joined the EDM team as well, and is now working in the Computer Graphics group.

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VibrantInk theme for Vim

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I came across a blog post from John Lam, the creator of RubyCLR. He made a rudimentary Vim color scheme based on VibrantInk by Justin Palmer. VibrantInk is a color scheme for the fabulous TextMate editor, and my personal favorite.

So I tried John’s version to make my Vim experience match up to TextMate’s in terms of eye-candy. It worked fine for GVim (the GUI version), but not in a plain terminal unfortunately.

I eventually discovered a great tutorial on how to convert GUI color schemes to 256 color terminal versions. After following the instructions and using some of the tools they provided, I managed to port it to the terminal.

The results (for Vim and GVim respectively):

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The theme can be downloaded from the Vim website. Enjoy!