Yeah, it would be nice if vim supported that natively, but it's possible to work around. My color scheme has lines of the form call High#Light("Comment", "

Yeah, it would be nice if vim supported that natively, but it's possible to work around. My color scheme has lines of the form call High#Light("Comment", "italic", "bg", "#003300") with a quick and dirty function that maps to the current terminal's supported colours. http://pastebin.com/3jx1i75L http://pastebin.com/3jx1i75L