Highlighting Vim text with black background when ANSI colors are off

Question

I'm on OSX. I turned ANSI colors off in Terminal.app. This is great, but now visual selections are no longer highlighted. I'd like them to be simply inverted with a black background and white text. I've tried

hi Visual ctermfg=15 ctermbg=0
hi VisualNOS ctermfg=15 ctermbg=0

but nothing's happening. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Without ANSI colors support there is no real point defining foreground and background colors.

What you are looking for is:

hi Visual cterm=reverse
hi VisualNOS cterm=underline

See :help highlight-cterm.