color coding mac terminal
You can change your shell colors in Terminal's preferences.
With these settings, you get these colors (not usually using colored ls
, so I don't care):
I don't understand what the issue is here. Colored command output is active by default. The only thing you can/need to do yourself is give normal and bold text different default colors, and actually use the colored variants (e.g. ls -G
) of your commands.
For vim: :syntax on
in vim
. Or append syntax on
to .vimrc
.
Add, these lines to the end of your ~/.bash_profile
alias ls='ls -G'
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=Gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad
As you can see, customizing them is a bit of a pain, but there's a website that helps with that... http://geoff.greer.fm/lscolors/
Now when you open the Terminal it will have colors in ls
Use the -G
switch to ls
on Mac:
ls -G
If you'd like the standard ls to always be colored, add this to your ~/.bash_profile
:
alias ls='ls -G'