Recently I had been able to get Vim to mirror all of my terminal's colors. Vim looked and felt how I wanted it. However, when I updated Vim last night to the latest version, 8.0.577, it stripped all of that out and gave me back the wretched color-scheme I once had.
I am running Linux Mint and use the standard terminal emulator that comes included. Is there any code I can place in my "~/.vimrc" that would make Vim mirror my terminal's sixteen-colors, thus standardizing how I use Vim in the future?
Interesting question, since most people have the opposite problem where they want more colours but only get the standard 16... Anyway, try this in your .vimrc or from the : prompt:
set t_Co=16