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my Italic font vim iTerm2 on mac not working

I am having trouble implementing italic style in my Vim under iTerm2 on OS X Yosimite.

I did the step-by-step from https://alexpearce.me/2014/05/italics-in-iterm2-vim-tmux/ and my iTerm is able to render italic. But my Vim still not working.

I've set the font to Menlo which has italic style supported and when i set the comment to italic in vim:

highlight Comment cterm=italic

The comment become having a bg-color instead of italic. Italic style not rendering properly

Do you guys know how to solve this problem?

Solution

  • I just found out the issue with my italic font not rendering properly. Tha was completly my own mistake. I have term set in my vimrc to xterm-256 instead of using whatever the terminal/iterm2 has.