You could try the settings I have on my mac for my ~/.vimrc file:
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" => Colors and Fonts"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""syntax enablecolorscheme desertset background=dark" Set extra options when running in GUI modeif has("gui_running") set guioptions-=T set guioptions+=e set t_Co=256 set guitablabel=%M\ %tendif" Set utf8 as standard encoding and en_US as the standard languageset encoding=utf8" Use Unix as the standard file typeset ffs=unix,dos,mac