Reset terminal after quitting VIM — colors all messed up

Question

Whenever I quit VIM my terminal colors are all messed up. Manually running reset on the command line doesn't seem to fix it either.

I'm using the Mustang VIM theme. I think I basically need to tell VIM to reset all colors or something before it quits.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Make sure your TERM environmental variable is correct for your terminal emulator software. People often set it to arbitrary values that seem to work without realizing that it can cause them problems.

Answer 2

Since the reset command should have reset all terminal settings, including color, I'm thinking that your terminal software is bad, and is therefore also probably responsible for the color bug in the first place.

(This, of course, assumes that your TERM environment variable is set to an appropriate type for your terminal software.)