I have a lovely Vim colorscheme (xoria256) and it looks brilliant in GVim, but when I use normal vim
in Terminal, the colorscheme is only partially supported — for example, the default semi-transparent aubergine background color is used. How do I make Terminal faithfully render my Vim colorscheme?
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Best Answer
GNOME Terminal supports 256 colors, but doesn't advertise its support. You can override vim's autodetection by putting the following:
in your ~/.vimrc.
Note: if you use GNU screen, it will happily eat those 256-color codes and convert them to basic 16 colors. A better fix is to change TERM to xterm-256color before launching screen/vim.
Update for 2017: if you have a sufficiently recent Vim (7.4.1799 or newer), and a sufficiently advanced terminal emulator (xterm, or gnome-terminal based on a sufficiently recent version of VTE), you can
:set termguicolors
and terminal vim will use full 24-bit colors as defined by your vim theme usinghighlight guifg=#rrggbb guibg=#rrggbb
.