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iterm vim colorscheme not working

When I run vim from the command line in iTerm, syntax highlighting doesn't seem to work locally.

In vim for example I have installed a nice colorscheme that works quite well in MacVim but it would be great if in iTerm it showed the same one.

Any ideas how I can turn this on?

This is the color scheme I'm trying to use http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2340

Solution

  • That color scheme looks like it only supports 256-color terminals. If Vim thinks that your terminal only supports 8 colors, you won't see that specific color scheme.

    You can check this in Vim by:

    :echo &t_Co

    If that returns 8, this might be the problem. Try setting it to 256 in your ~/.vimrc and see if that helps:

    let &t_Co=256