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I'm working with the Vim 7.2 that comes with Mac OS 10.6.1 (Leopard), using the Mac's "Terminal" app. I'd like to use a fancy color scheme. I did this...
:syntax on
Then this...
:colorscheme slate
:colorscheme elflord
:colorscheme desert
etc...
Syntax highlighting is working, but I'm finding that regardless of the scheme I choose, the only colors displayed are the basic Red, Blue, Cyan, Gray, etc.
Is there a way to get the Terminal app to display a larger collection of colors to allow some more subtle schemes?
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You can change color schemes at anytime in vi by typing colorscheme followed by a space and the name of the color scheme. For more color schemes, you can browse this library on the vim website. You can enable or disable colors by simply typing "syntax on" or "syntax off" in vi.
How do I configure Mac OS X Terminal app to have color ls output? You can enable colorized output by passing the -G option to ls command on Apple Mac OS X or FreeBSD operating system. You don't have to install anything special. Just pass the -G option to the ls command to enable colorized output on Unix box.
If you want to toggle this on/off (without creating a . vimrc file) simply type :syntax on while in vi/vim. Save this answer.
I found the answer here: color scheme's and syntax' files can be found in /usr/share/vim/ .
Create a .vimrc file on your home ~/ folder and then edit it with vim ~/.vimrc. You can try adding syntax on inside ~/.vimrc file. The following command does that:
echo "syntax on" >> ~/.vimrc
It will highlight your code syntax on vim
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You need to create file ~/.vimrc and add syntax on in that file
vi ~/.vimrc
syntax on
save the file and run your vim
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