Right, and forget it if you think your Vim is somehow going to magically look like the beautiful screenshots you see on the Vim theme sites. Getting a terminal

Right, and forget it if you think your Vim is somehow going to magically look like the beautiful screenshots you see on the Vim theme sites. Getting a terminal to properly handle 256 colors or more is annoying in and of itself. (definitely not impossible). It's nice to launch an editor, download some plugins, choose a theme and just GO.