Italic fonts in iTerm2 tmux and vim

vim iterm2 linux MacOS

Run following command to fix italic fonts

{ infocmp -1 xterm-256color ; echo -e "\tsitm=\\E[3m,\n\tritm=\\E[23m,"; } > xterm-256color.terminfo
tic xterm-256color.terminfo
rm xterm-256color.terminfo

To fix tmux, add following code in ~/.tmux.conf

set -g default-terminal "xterm-256color"

Reference: https://alexpearce.me/2014/05/italics-in-iterm2-vim-tmux/

Written on July 12, 2017