Graphical issues in vim

Question

Not sure if this is the best place to ask this but does anyone know why I'm seeing those purple-ish bars in my vim?

Also, I'm using Lion OSX

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Youre not overriding (manually setting) your $TERM variable are you? That can cause this behavior since it'll try to use the wrong terminal settings.

whippersnapper · Answer 1 · 2012-02-07 21:22:38Z

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I would try different color schemes, e.g.

:colorscheme default

I found that some color schemes have this problem with some terminals. Perhaps the scheme wants 256 color support and your terminal isn't capable.

answered Feb 7 '12 at 21:22

whippersnapper
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