Making vim display italicised text

To make vim display italicised text, see this wonderful blog entry. Essentially, we need to manually map the escape sequences to the keywords sitm and ritm, which are used by vim to set and remove italic mode respectively. The file in question, xterm-256color-italic.terminfo, has been added to the misc repository as well. It contains all relevant install info. Note that TERM must be set to xterm-256color-italic by gnome-terminal for this to take effect. This askubuntu question tells you how to do it. Set the command executed by gnome-terminal to be env TERM=xterm-256color-italic /bin/bash.