Lost colour scheme in TMUX when using Vim

Question

I have a molokai colour scheme for vim which loads fine from shell. I've just installed tmux but have lost my colour settings. From reading other posts I found these settings for 256 mode but I must be missing a step. I'm on MacVim 7.3 and used brew for tmux

Here are my config settings

~/.tmux.conf

set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"

~/.bashrc

set -g default-terminal "xterm"

I ran

$ source ~/.bashrc

then either tmux or tmux -2 and I get the plain white screen when running vi. Any tips welcome

Cheers!

romainl · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-16 13:59:19Z

3

set -g default-terminal "whatever" is a tmux command: it has nothing to do in ~/.bashrc.

set is a genuine command of your shell but it doesn't follow the same syntax and should spit an error upon initialization anyway.

Remove that line from ~/.bashrc.
Go to the prefs of your terminal emulator and set it to use xterm-256color.

answered Dec 16, 2013 at 13:59

romainl

199k21 gold badges300 silver badges340 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Comments

sohnryang · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-22 16:18:43Z

2

Try:

TERM="screen-256color" vim

or

TERM="xterm" vim

and see which one has colors, and use that in .bashrc.

edited Dec 22, 2016 at 16:18

sohnryang

7652 gold badges13 silver badges27 bronze badges

answered Dec 16, 2013 at 13:40

Olivier Dulac

3,84019 silver badges35 bronze badges

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Lost colour scheme in TMUX when using Vim

2 Answers 2

Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related