The wombat colorscheme is so far the best scheme I found. It is from Lars H. Nielsen http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wombat/
Both image directly link from Lars H. Nielsen's blog
You can download that colorscheme from his blog as the link listed above, *but it doesn’t work on iTerm*. The reason is the iTerm default have 8 colors only. So you need to make the iTerm to 256 color and download a modified version of the colorscheme which works on 256 color.
To change the iTerm color setting, select Bookmarks -> Manage Profiles from the menu. Select xterm-256color as shown below:
Go to http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2465 download the wombat256 colorscheme, put the file under /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/. (vim72 is the version of vim I am running, you may have a different number). Then edit .vimrc in your home directory, add a line “colors wombat256″. Done.
Instead of putting the colorscheme in /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors directory, you can create ~/.vim/colors directory to hold that file.
steps:
1. mkdir ~/.vim/colors/
2. download wmbat256.vim and put the file in the ~/.vim/colors folder
3. in .vimrc, add “colorscheme wmbat256″, “set t_Co=256″, and “syntax=on”
done!
oh, your setup is better!
works with different yroot.
Man, I’ve been agonising over this trying to get vim, within tmux, running on a remote ubuntu server working properly on my mac iterm, and this tip did it, fantastic!