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Setting up your computer for Vim and Tmux often comes with a few issues. Here's how to manage plugins for Vim and use Tmux to boost your productivity, as well as settle a few common issues.

We'll install:

1. Vundle - Plugin management for Vim
2. Solarized color scheme
3. Tmux - Terminal multiplexer

We'll also figure out some issues Mac and Tmux have with showing 256 color themes.

Install Vundle

You can install Vundle by cloning it:

Configure Vundle

Once installed, you can configure it.

And follow the installation directions by editing your ~/.vimrc file:

Once this is setup, you can open a new instance of vim and run :BundleInstall:

You'll get a confirmation 'Done' message on the bottom of your screen if all goes well.

Add Solarized Color Theme

Next, we'll add the Solarized color theme. Vundle makes this really easy. Simply add the Github repository name in ~/.vimrc:

Now that we've added the solarized theme, we need to have Vundle install it.

Macbook Vim Vs

Now open up your Terminal (iTerm2 or Terminal app). If you're on a Mac, you may see something...ugly. I had a terrible background and the colors were completley off. I didn't have 256 color enabled.

Here's what I saw:

To fix that, I finally came across this StackOverflow question, which had the answer waiting.

Change your ~.vimrc settings from above to the following:

Once you start up a new instance of Vim, you should see your new, colored vim!

Onto Tmux!

Let's up our game and get Tmux into the mix. We can use Tmux to open up multiple 'panes' within our shell.

First, install it. On your Mac, you can use Homebrew:

Ubuntu or Debian users can user apt-get:

Great. Now, colors are also an issue when running Vim within Tmux. Let's fix that. Create or edit the file ~/.tmux.conf:

Now we're ready to use Tmux. Start up a new Tmux session:

Next, split the screen vertically so we have 2 panes with this keyboard shortcut:

You can switch between panes with this shortcut:

You can then open up separate files in each! (Or do ... anything really).

More Tmux

Tmux has Windows, and within the Windows it has Panes. Each Window consists of a set of 1-n Panes.

Tmux also has Sessions. A collection of Windows/Panes live within a Session. You can detach from a Session, leaving it running in the background. You can later re-attach to it, and continue working. This is how people pair program.

Split Screen into 2 Panes:

Split current Pane horizontally into 2 Panes:

Switch between Panes:

Create new Window:

Switch between Windows:

Detach from Session:

Re-attach to a Session:

Create a Session:

Switch between Sessions:

Switch between Sessions within Tmux:

List Sessions:

List all commands:

Scripted!

You can run this bash script on your Debian or Ubuntu server to run the above Vim+Tmux configurations. This might conflict with anything you currently have in your ~/.vimrc or ~/.tmux.conf files (If they already exist). Back them up first.

Further Reading:

The new Dark Mode in macOS Mojave is a nice addition and is – especially inthe night hours — more pleasing to your eyes than the light mode.

However, enabling Dark Mode will not change the Terminal profile, which isa little bit annoying – especially if your color theme has a light and a darkvariant (like the infamous Solarized, Snow, One, or my own Rasta theme).

If you change your Terminal profile to something dark, Vim still doesn’t lookright because it uses its own mechanism for light/dark backgrounds (see :help'background' for details) and doesn’t know about the changes you made to theTerminal profile.

If you execute :set background=dark in Vim (and if you color schemesupports it), Vim looks nice and dark now, too.

However, on the next day, the fun begins again when you want to switcheverything back to light mode …

Wouldn’t it be nice if this could all be accomplished with a single command?

There are tools, that help you with switching to/from macOS Dark Mode (e.g.,NightOwl or Shifty), but they can’t change your Terminal profile or notify Vim.

As it turns out, it’s not too hard to implement a little program that doesexactly this:

• You can uses the defaults command to get the current macOS Dark Theme mode:

• You can use AppleScript (oh, how I love this language …) to set Dark Mode andupdate the Terminal profile:

• You can wrap both things with a Python script:

• You can use the timer_start() function introduced in Vim 8 and neovim toregularly check for the current Dark Mode settings. Put this into your Vim config:

• You can create an Automator action that runs the Python script and thatcan be activated with a global shortcut. I use ⌥⌘D (you need todeactivate this shortcut for showing/hiding the Dock first). This is theAppleScript I used:

The drawback of this method is that the current application (at the time youpress ⌥⌘D) is used as “source” of the action you get two dialogs asking youto give that app permissions to remote control the System Settings and Terminal.

A better solution would be if the authors of NightOwl and Shifty wouldintegrated this into their tools. I’m gonna contact them and see what happens. :-)

Update:

Macbook Vim Price

MacVimgot anOSAppearanceChanged event that is emitted every time MacVim changes its appearance.

Thanks to Frank for the heads up!