ITerm2: How to change the color used to highlight search results

Very late answer, but I've found a way here that I wanted to share. This assumes you're running Zsh and oh-my-zsh but with some shell scripting experience you should be able to adjust this to other shells.

I've copied these instructions here for posterity:

Create two iTerm profiles:

*   Your personal preference theme (can be named anything)
*   SSH color theme (must be named SSH)

Go into your ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom directory and create a new file entitled iTerm2-ssh.zsh. Copy and paste the following or copy from the repo:

function tabc() {
    NAME=$1; if [ -z "$NAME" ]; then NAME="Default"; fi 
    # if you have trouble with this, change
    # "Default" to the name of your default theme
    echo -e "\033]50;SetProfile=$NAME\a"
}

function tab-reset() {
    NAME="YOUR_CUSTOM_PROFILE_NAME_HERE"
    echo -e "\033]50;SetProfile=$NAME\a"
}

function colorssh() {
    if [[ -n "$ITERM_SESSION_ID" ]]; then
        trap "tab-reset" INT EXIT
        if [[ "$*" =~ "web*|production|ec2-.*compute-1" ]]; then
            tabc SSH
        fi
    fi
    ssh $*
}
compdef _ssh tabc=ssh

alias ssh="colorssh"

The breakdown of this code:

tabc() grabs the ssh name after the command $ ssh is entered. This changes the SetProfile name to ssh.

tab-reset() is responsible for when you exit the ssh session to return back to a profile name of your choosing. Remember to create a custom profile name and replace the _YOUR_CUSTOM_PROFILE_NAME_HERE_ with your profile name.

colorssh determines when to change the SetProfile name. Currently it will change to the SSH profile when one of the following values exist after $ ssh:

-   web *
-   production
-   ec2-.*compute-1

Again, not my code, just a happy user. Thanks for this one, Hector Leiva!

Turn minimum contrast back down—that's what's washing out the colors. It's meant to increase the contrast between foreground text and background color, which is making the colors look wrong.