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I'm looking to enable color syntax highlighting in vi. I just enabled colors in Terminal via here. Any ideas on how to enable this?
NOTE: Usually on Linux when I open vi with vi file.txt and it opens in black and white on default, I can open the same file with vim file.txt and it will show the colors, but this does not work here.
The problem is likely due to your vim settings rather than your terminal settings.
The color you mentioned is pretty close to color 224 (of 256 colors), so you might try looking in your vim colorscheme to see if that color is used in a ctermfg= declaration.
To test and see if I'm right you could try
:syn match Foo /foo/
:hi Foo ctermfg=red
If that turns the word foo red then you know your terminal's red is working properly and it will be an issue with your vim settings.
In Solarized Dark.terminal and Solarized Light.terminal, the 2*8 ANSI colors are specified in the sRGB color space, which seems to be identical with Device RGB at least on my iMac. The text, bold text, selection, cursor, and background colors are untagged, or shown as Generic RGB in the color picker. Terminal doesn't convert either of them to the color space used by your display.
You can specify the colors using your display's color space manually. For each color:
Click the color well, memorize the HSB or RGB values, and change the profile to the profile used by your display.
Insert the values you memorized, which should be the same as the values shown in the table in http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized.
In Solarized Dark.terminal:
On my iMac the background and foreground colors in Solarized Dark.terminal were initially too bright, but the color space used by my iMac is fairly close to sRGB, so most of the ANSI colors were not that far off.
Best Answer
It’s a matter of having the right settings in your
~/.vimrcfile. Here’s mine: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc.The key is to add this:
You can install color schemes in your
~/.vim/colorsdirectory. To enable a colorscheme, use:I’m using Molokai, which looks like this when editing a JavaScript file: