Making Vim Suck Less on Mac OSX
I have been a 1/2 time Ubuntu, 1/2 time OS X user for about a year. While I generally liked Ubuntu, it was a drag not to be able to use my favorite programs such as TextMate and Adobe CS3. So, I’ve made the jump to being a full-time Mac fan-boy.
I’m still irritated that I can’t scroll my mouse up and down in the document, however I find that dumping the Mac Terminal for iTerm is a good start.
Now, the syntax highlighting is a pain. I typically use:
mate .
To open my files in Textmate, but sometimes it’s just quicker to edit in VIM. To turn syntax highlighting on, open Terminal or iTerm, and type:
$ vim .bash_profile
and add:
alias ll='ls -lha'
source ~/.bashrc
then press “esc” then “:wq”.
I’m lazy, and I like “ll” in terminal to be the same as ls -lha, which the alias above accomplishes.
now:
$vim .bashrc
And add:
export TERM=xterm-color
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' GREP_COLOR='1;32'
export CLICOLOR=1
alias ls='ls -G'
export COLOR_NC='\e[0m' # No Color
export COLOR_WHITE='\e[1;37m'
export COLOR_BLACK='\e[0;30m'
export COLOR_BLUE='\e[0;34m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_BLUE='\e[1;34m'
export COLOR_GREEN='\e[0;32m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_GREEN='\e[1;32m'
export COLOR_CYAN='\e[0;36m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_CYAN='\e[1;36m'
export COLOR_RED='\e[0;31m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_RED='\e[1;31m'
export COLOR_PURPLE='\e[0;35m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_PURPLE='\e[1;35m'
export COLOR_BROWN='\e[0;33m'
export COLOR_YELLOW='\e[1;33m'
export COLOR_GRAY='\e[1;30m'
export COLOR_LIGHT_GRAY='\e[0;37m'
alias colorslist="set | egrep 'COLOR_\w*'"
then press “esc” then “:wq”.
then
$ vim .vimrc
In that new file, add:
if has("terminfo")
set t_Co=16
set t_AB=^[[%?%p1%{8}%<%t%p1%{40}%+%e%p1%{92}%+%;%dm
set t_AF=^[[%?%p1%{8}%<%t%p1%{30}%+%e%p1%{82}%+%;%dm
else
set t_Co=16
set t_Sf=^[[3%dm
set t_Sb=^[[4%dm
endif
syntax on
then press “esc” then “:wq”.
Close your terminal window, and now you will have pretty syntax highlighting. 
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