lose vim colorscheme in tmux mode

Question

I\'m running iterm2 and when I\'m in tmux mode the colorscheme I have set in vim does not show up. Only the color scheme I\'ve set in iterm. If I run vim from shell the colo

Answer 1

If you use tmuxinator or mux, you will need to add these in .bashrc or .zshrc:

alias tmux='TERM=screen-256color tmux -2'
alias tmuxinator='TERM=screen-256color tmuxinator'
alias mux='TERM=screen-256color mux'

These forces to use 256-color in terminal.

Then tmux, tmuxinator and mux command will all work.