Similar experience. I could never get Vim color schemes to work properly in Mavericks, despite many attempts. I've been using Terminal on Yosemite, and for wha

Similar experience. I could never get Vim color schemes to work properly in Mavericks, despite many attempts. I've been using Terminal on Yosemite, and for what it's worth, the Solarized theme works properly. I'd forgotten how much trouble it was in the past. My current setup is to run tmux inside Terminal, with the 'Option as Meta key' flag enabled. Then configuring tmux to use Option-A (instead of Control-B) preserves the standard emacs shortcuts. So Control-A and Control-B still work to move to the beginning of the line and back a character. Mapping Control to Cap Locks, and using Option-A for tmux has served me well so far. I agree that Terminal seems more polished (start up time and ability to keep up with typing speed - iTerm seemed slightly laggy compared to Terminal). But I'll give iTerm another try - the configuration options are impressive.