Enabling italics in Vim and tmux

Mar 17, 2020 · Last updated: Apr 7, 2020 · Permalink If you're like me, you fiddle around with your development setup and dotfiles frequently tweaking and breaking things and learning along the way. I only recently found out that you could have comments on Vim appear in italics. All you need to do is add highlight Comment cterm=italic to your .vimrc. Except, it's usually not that straightforward!