I haven't searched for vim 8 specifically. But starting with vim v7.4.1770 there was a `set guicolors` option. Update: Looking at the version8.txt[1] on github

I haven't searched for vim 8 specifically. But starting with vim v7.4.1770 there was a `set guicolors` option. Update: Looking at the version8.txt[1] on github, the option seems to be `set termguicolors` Change seemed to take place at version 7.4.1799[2] [1]https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/version8.txt https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/version8.... [2]https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/version8.txt#L11107 https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/version8....