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> 3) Since Vim runs in the terminal, it means that I can, very easily, perform many things without having to use the mouse or alt-tab once. Uninterrupted workflow is extremely important to me as a developer who tinkers with the entire stack:

I have a stupid, but related question for the smart people of HN.

I find myself using Vim in the terminal, instead of GVim, for the same reason: Ctrl-Z works, Ctrl-PgDn to the next terminal tab (and back: Ctrl-PgUp) works, it doesn't pop up a new window when I run it, etc.

But GVim has much nicer colors (I picked my favorite out of about 50 themes), and I can't get Vim in a terminal to look more than halfway decent. In the terminal, colors are more distracting and hard on the eyes.

Is anyone aware of a way to get the best of both worlds, i.e. true-color colorschemes in Vim in a terminal? To partially answer my own question, KDE's Konsole seems to support true color[1], but before I install it I'd be curious to know if Vim even works with that feature, and if there are any other, preferably GTK-based, true-color terminals out there.

[1]: https://github.com/robertknight/konsole/blob/master/user-doc...

1. Make sure your terminal advertises itself as supporting 256 colors. $ echo $TERM should output xterm-256color

2. Find yourself a nice 256 colors-ready colorscheme.

3. Enjoy.

If you can't find a 256 colors-ready colorscheme that suits your needs, you can use a Vim plugin called CSApprox to convert a GUI colorscheme for use in a 256 colors terminal.

ZyX as written a patch to allow Vim to play well with that feature in Konsole. You could try it: https://bitbucket.org/ZyX_I/vim/commits/9c4ad944627dc19bd898...

Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/17941z/is_there_any_way...

Thanks! This is the only response that actually answers the question. I'll try Konsole with the linked vim patch.

Yeah - you basically just need to get xterm (or whichever terminal em you are using) to run as 256 colors:

My solution is to place this in my .bashrc

# begin code if [ "$TERM" == "xterm" ]; then export TERM=xterm-256color fi # end code

Of course the terminal should be 256 color terminal. Hope this helps.

The problem with that is it's still only 256 colors, which likely doesn't include all the colors in my preferred colorscheme. That's why I'm looking for "true-color", which typically means 16.7 million colors like we are used to (e.g. #rrggbb in CSS), not 256.

I am using vim in tmux inside a terminal (iTerm2) and I was also unhappy with how vim looked in the terminal so I've made a colorscheme (https://github.com/adrianolaru/vim-adio) especially for this setup. Check it out, maybe you'll like it.

I ran into the same issue with vim in a terminal. I decided to give gVim a try and I really like it. I used to use the sp and vs commands but now find myself using the tabbed windows in gvim. Try typing :tabnew for a new tab and gt for cycling through them.

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