[deanproxy]

I don't see why... I've been able to do almost any color scheme from textmate or other editors. I have my favorite color scheme from textmate in VIM (Sunburst). Just make sure you're either using gvim or your terminal has 256 colors turned on.

[bphogan]

The 256 color thing is the most important and was something I struggled with for a few years before I figured out the problem - on Linux it was always fine, but on OSX, wow it was bad. Couldn't figure out why till someone else said the fact same thing - 256 color mode.

[drivebyacct2]

The syntax schemes just either never have the number of unique keyword(-types) available or I assume since it's the case for every language I use... it's not possible with vim. If it is, then I lament the inferior set of default syntax highliting.

And yeah, I use gvim for the greater color palette. I'd take a screenshot, but my current tether is on 3G and my server is taking too long to launch Gvim over X