Vim: Transparency in MacVim

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Wahoo! MacVim now supports transparency. Finally, I can have a nice, transparent Vim window to match my transparent terminal, and I don't have to give up all the modern conveniences. If you use the "Homebrew" profile for your Terminal.app, try putting the following in your .gvimrc:
colorscheme torte
set transparency=15

Comments

josh said…
thank you, since changing from Ubuntu to Mac at work, I have been using vim (interminal) because I could not have a transparent background in MacVim (or so I thought!)
You have mad my life just a little easier.
2:25 PM
Daniel said…
Tried in both .vimrc & .gvimrc

All it does is fades the background color (making it more opaque to white)
6:20 AM
Shannon -jj Behrens said…
Are you using MacVim?
7:27 AM
Anonymous said…
Yeah I can't get the background to be transparent either (and yes, using MacVim (on Lion))
6:26 PM
Shannon -jj Behrens said…
I'm sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, I don't currently have a Mac, so I can't help debug this. It might be worth a bit of googling.
2:35 PM
Alex Blackie said…
I'm also on Lion, and didn't notice any transparency, but I think I've found the problem. The window itself isn't transparent, but the buffers are...

Observe: http://cl.ly/9rXo

You can see the other buffer in the background. So I guess, in Lion, transparency doesn't work properly...
10:26 AM
Don Smith said…
It will work if you turn on the experimental renderer (MacVim preferences -> Advanced tab). Via: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/issues/detail?id=278
6:17 PM
Anonymous said…
Don Smith, thank you so much. Almost went back to terminal vim because of no transparency.
9:42 AM
Omar Mendoza said…
Thanks for this, first not work, but after make the two files in ~/.vimrc and ~/.gvimrc the two files with the same content, now, works very well, thanks a lot !!!
5:01 PM
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