On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:36 AM, guivho <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using (mac)vim in a default terminal is - at least to my eyes - rather
> difficult. Pictures say more than words, so please have a look at
> http://www.vanhoecke.org/vim.png where 'MacVim', 'app', 'gvim' etc are
> on a colored background with text that is very difficult to read.
>
> I use the default color scheme for vim (macvim), as well as for the
> Terminal. I'm pretty sure that other users had similar problems and are
> very willing to share there setup.
>
> Maybe there is a different, easier colorscheme for either vim, the
> terminal or both.
>
> I'd sure like to read how you pros handle this. I doubt that you, like me,
> always try to use gvim to avoid this problem.


While there are plenty of other colorschemes, one problem is that
Apple's Terminal.app only supports 16 colors. So, either use a
16-color colorscheme, use MacVim (GUI), or use a terminal that can
handle 256 colors (like iTerm2: http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/).
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