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OSX Lion terminal lost all colors

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Mar 15, 202611172 views
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I recently upgraded to Lion only to find that Terminal.app (and iTerm2, which I actually use instead) have totally lost all colors. This means no syntax highlighting in Vim, no colored directory names or filenames, no nothing. I've tried playing around with the terminal-type option in the preferenc…

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xterm-256color

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I had to edit ~/.profile and put this code in to make folders color. This shows LSCOLORS options. I used this to make a custom cursor: Hope this helps. For vim, use a theme like this theme And add 2 folders, ~/.vim and ~/.vim/colors Put the theme fi…

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