Terminal and Vim colors on dark background (with Pro profile)

[marionez]

I've been using vim for years on linux OSs so when I tried OSx I noticed that something in vim profile was wrong.

I use syntax highlighting.

 

- cursor position row and column was missing in vim

- if you set Terminal in Pro profile, you get a dark background, in this situation dark blue highlighting is unreadable

 

So the solution to both problem is, create a file called .vimrc in your home user profile directory, with this:

highlight comment ctermfg=green guifg=green
syntax on
highlight Type		  ctermfg=DarkMagenta
highlight Comment	   ctermfg=DarkGreen
set laststatus=2
set ruler

 

Setting those colors you workaround the setbackground=dark option that doesn't work well here, I still obtain some dark blue highlighting, don't know why, and you finally get your cursor coordinates on bottom right

 

There are some problem even with bash Terminal, I solved by creating a file in my home directory .profile with this:

export LSCOLORS=gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad

Close Terminal.app from dock and restart it.

 

Now you can read bash and vim on dark background!