Macos – OSX-Terminal.app + vim + solarized colorscheme

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I know this topic is widely spread over the internet, but I have spent the whole morning searching a solution and nothing helps.

I want to use vim in the osx-terminal with the solarized colorscheme.

So i downloaded the solarized.vim file an copied it into /usr/share/vim/colors and wrote

   let g:solarized_termcolors=256
   set background=dark
   colorscheme solarized

in the .vimrc.

In the preferences, the terminal is set to xterm-256color, but the color is still messed up.

What i did, is exactly what you can find here.

So, what am i doing wrong?

Best Answer

If you're trying to use VIM on the console, try changing the Terminal theme to Solarized.

You can follow this blog post on Solarized theme for OSX:

In the Terminal.app you have a few options of color schemes that you can choose from. We are going to install the Solarized Dark and Solarized Light themes for some human eye friendly color combinations

Go to http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized in your browser

Download the the latest version http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/files/solarized.zip.

Unzip the package and locate the osx-terminal.app-colors-solarized folder within the extracted folder.

Double click on Solarized Dark ansi.terminal and Solarized Light ansi.terminal.

If your system then complains that it is from an unidentified developer, you have to temporarily allow applications from anywhere. To do this go to: System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > Allow applications downloaded from and select “Anywhere”. Don’t forget to change this back!

Select the theme in the Terminal.app preferences under Settings > Profiles. You can press default to have it default selected.

Use `\r` instead of `\n`.

Substituting by \n inserts a null character into the text. To get a newline, use \r. When searching for a newline, you’d still use \n, however. This asymmetry is due to the fact that \n and \r do slightly different things:

\n matches an end of line (newline), whereas \r matches a carriage return. On the other hand, in substitutions \n inserts a null character whereas \r inserts a newline (more precisely, it’s treated as the input CR). Here’s a small, non-interactive example to illustrate this, using the Vim command line feature (in other words, you can copy and paste the following into a terminal to run it). xxd shows a hexdump of the resulting file.

echo bar > test
(echo 'Before:'; xxd test) > output.txt
vim test '+s/b/\n/' '+s/a/\r/' +wq
(echo 'After:'; xxd test) >> output.txt
more output.txt

Before:
0000000: 6261 720a                                bar.
After:
0000000: 000a 720a                                ..r.

In other words, \n has inserted the byte 0x00 into the text; \r has inserted the byte 0x0a.

Eclipse – How to duplicate a whole line in Vim

yy or Y to copy the line (mnemonic: yank)
or
dd to delete the line (Vim copies what you deleted into a clipboard-like "register", like a cut operation)

then

p to paste the copied or deleted text after the current line
or
P to paste the copied or deleted text before the current line

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