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

I have been using iTerm and was shocked to find out Terminal.app doesn't support 256 colors! I recommend Bryan's answer.

However, if you ever get in a bind like this, you can change $TERM to vt100 and vim won't try to use colors. In bash (the default MacOSX shell) you set this with:

export TERM='vt100'