Re: Colors on mac

On Feb 6, 2012, at 10:53 PM, Ven Tadipatri wrote:

> I'm sure this question has been asked several times --but I'm using
> the terminal for the Mac OS X, and I would like to have a dark
> background with well, light colors on the foreground. But I would also
> like the colors on the foreground to be easy to read (not dark blue on
> dark black or light yellow on white). How do I do this?

- Make a duplicate of the Pro terminal theme (use gear action menu).
- Name it, e.g., Personal.
- Change font to Menlo 14 pt (a full Unicode anti-aliased font)
- Switch OFF "Use bold fonts"
- Switch ON "Use bright colors for bold text"
- Adjust any other settings and make this your default theme.
- Make sure xterm-color is set in advanced options
(it's on by default for Pro theme, so its duplicate should have it).

> Do you change the LSCOLORS variable on your terminal?

Yes. My settings are:

CLICOLOR=1
LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad
export CLICOLOR LSCOLORS

> Do you redefine what RGB values correspond to yellow and blue are in the terminal?

No. I only change the text color in terminal preferences to light grey (75% brightness) so that it's different from the bold text color (white). I also switch off transparency (i.e., set opacity to 100%) for sharper text.

> Or do you add a new color to ~/.vim/colors and somehow tweak the colors to look right?

Only for GUI (i.e., MacVim) in my ~/.vim/colors/personal.vim theme.
Make sure to set background=dark in your vim settings or color theme.

> These are types of files I would like to have proper colors: *.cpp,
> *.h, .bashrc and .vimrc files.

The "bold off/bright colors on" setting I described above works well for me with all sorts of files. I think that's all, but I might be forgetting something. Try it and I hope it helps.

Best regards,

Zvezdan Petkovic

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