Why colors are not displaying in VIM - OH-MY-ZSH

Question

I have seen this post :

oh-my-zsh themes don't show properly (background stays white)

But nothing helped.

Problem is in MAC VIM Colors are displaying messed but in linux all colors are working fine.

I am using iTerm 2 as in tutorial but here's how colors are showing.

Why this is not working ?

I think it should be link this :

Here are my settings in iTerm2

Solution

Test to see whether syntax highlighting is enabled in Vim. If you type :syntax on and the problem goes away then that's your issue, and you can correct it by adding:

syntax on

to your $MYVIMRC file (usually at ~/.vimrc or ~/.vim/vimrc; find out exactly with :echo $MYVIMRC in Vim).

Comments

[Andreas Louv]

Maybe you need set t_Co=256 if you use a 256 colors scheme but your terminal doesn't tell vim it supports 256 colors.

[floatingpurr]

If I type :syntax on it works. But I have no variable $MYVIMRC for a permanent fix.

[kemicofa ghost]

How to permanently have :syntax on ? Do I have to type it every time?

[Arun Gopalpuri]

Just create a file ~/.vimrc and syntax on to it and save. It worked for me even though I didn't have any variable $MYVIMRC

[kramfs]

Thanks, syntax on is definitely NOT enabled. Adding that in the ~/.vimrc file solved it.