Honestly, I like Apple's Terminal.app better as well, but if I'm doing a lot
of work in vim from the mac (normally I'm on a linux box), I like to have my
color scheme (requires 256 color support) and mouse support.  If Apple would
just add those to Terminal.app, I don't think I'd ever use iTerm :)

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:46 PM, John Vonachen <[email protected]>wrote:

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>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Kyle Lippincott <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> This typically indicates that TERM is not set properly.  I assume you use
>> Terminal.app, bash, and the default 10.5 or 10.6 ssh.  This should
>> automatically get you a 16-color terminal.  In vim on the Centos box, what
>> do you get when you run: ":set t_Co?"  What about ":set term?"  Try setting
>> t_Co to be 8 (it will use bold to simulate 16, which you can configure in
>> Terminal.app's settings): ":set t_Co=8".
>>
>> Ensure of course that you have a color scheme and syntax file set: ":set
>> ft?" to determine if the filetype was identified correctly, and ":color
>> koehler" should work on a low-color terminal.
>>
>> If you were to use iTerm2 you would be able to have 256 colors, but that
>> probably involves a bit more setup than the simple case listed above.
>>
>>
>>
> I typed vim instead of vi.  That was it.  We aparently have more than one
> version of vi and one worked and the other did not.  Thanks for your
> efforts.   BTW - I downloaded iterm2 and tried it out and I think I like the
> normal Terminal better.
>
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