Christian Brabandt

I am out of ideas currently

I think Vim sees the `"` as comment char, so please try escaping the `"`, e.g.: :yank \"

no reaction? Can I assume this works for you?

you can also check `:version` output:  You can then use `:e $HOME/vimfiles/vimrc` to open/edit the vimrc file.

so any idea how to provide those hints?

can you build a gtk 2 build and check if this is any different there?

so you want basically add highlighting to the `echomsg()` function, right?

also, can you please test using `vim --clean` and try with a latest vim build please?

just an idea. What version of Terminal.app are you using? can you also re-generate the log with a more recent vim?

so it only happens with Terminal.app? Have you tried using the legacy colorschemes: https://github.com/vim/colorschemes/blob/master/legacy_colors/darkblue.vim (for darkblue)