From here it’s just a matter of playing around with the ANSI colors of the peppermint theme in terminal preferences until you get something that you just love to look at. You should now see a colorful display of beauty. Open a new window in terminal and run this command: bash_profile.Įcho ‘source “`brew –prefix grc`/etc/grc.bashrc”‘ > ~/.bash_profile Next run this command if you already setup a. You should start to see some crazy things happen, that’s normal. Ruby -e “$(curl -fsSkL /mxcl/homebrew/go)” If you want to customize it a lot, you can even create a color scheme. For more help on syntax highlighting in general, type :help :syntax-highlighting. Type :help :hi in Vim for more information on this.
Head over to Homebrew and copy this command from under INSTALL Homebrew or just paste it from below: To customize the colors, use the :highlight command. Now lets get some color in the ping command. Open terminal, select preferences and set the default to peppermint and check the colors by typing: Head over to here and install the peppermint theme. To be honest thought the colors aren’t the best choose so lets install a better terminal them. The user of the session is highlighted before the prompt, and the output from the ls command is colored. You should see that two parts now have color. Then hit the “esc” key, this exits “insert” mode so you don’t add any more text to the actual file. # This command changes the terminal login colors # This command tells termical to add color Hit the “i’ key to inset text and type this: bash_profile by opening terminal and typing: luckily there is a way to add some color to that painfully dull screen. As I spend more time in Terminal I find myself wishing it wasn’t so boring.