Mac OS X vim colors mangled

Question

Here\'s my setup

• Mac OS X 10.6
• VIM (default version that comes with OSX 10.6)
• rails.vim (installed in .vim/autoload)
• ir_black.vim (insta

Answer 1

As mentioned by others, ir_black requires 256 colors, which is not supported by Terminal on 10.6.x and earlier.

As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal now supports 256 colors and the default $TERM value is xterm-256colors. ir_black should work fine for you if you upgrade to Lion.