Answer by pullsumo for Vim colors conflicting with terminal ones

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