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I just got a new iMac, and installed iTerm (0.10). On my last laptop 256 color mode worked fine, but I'm having trouble getting this to work on my new Mac.

I copied over all the settings, set $TERM to xterm-256color, but no dice.

I changed my .vimrc to the absolute minimum to try this out:

set t_Co=256
syntax on

Tried multiple colorschemes, too.

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This SO question suggests using let t_Co=256, not set. Any results? stackoverflow.com/questions/3761770/… – Nathan Greenstein♦ Jan 16 '11 at 19:43
Also might try this article: jimlund.org/blog/?p=130 – Nathan Greenstein♦ Jan 16 '11 at 19:45

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iTerm2 has the advantage of developer support for these kinds of issues. http://sites.google.com/site/iterm2home/

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I just installed iTerm2 this afternoon, and it's excellent, Much closer to Terminal.app in it's cleanness, but with the extra functionality of iTerm, plus a few extra features of it's own. GLTerminal is also a lot of fun, but thin on extra features ;) – Slomojo Jan 29 '11 at 8:13
FYI, in Lion, Terminal supports 256 colors and has a number of other enhancements. It may be worth taking a look to see whether iTerm2 still offers something you specifically want that Terminal doesn't. – Chris Page Aug 11 '11 at 5:36
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OK, so...

I just started vim again, and colors where there. Since then I did make a changehowever, I installed XCode. This is the only thing I did change, so there must be something in there that fixes this.

Thanks for the effort!

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Prior to Mac OS X Lion 10.7, the terminfo files for xterm-256color and some others were part of the Xcode install instead of the regular system install. In Lion, they are now part of the system install. – Chris Page Aug 10 '11 at 1:42

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