Archive for October 7, 2011
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Change cursor highlight color on Vim
October 7, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on October 7, 2011.
One of the first things I do when setting up my Vim on Ubuntu is download akitaonrails’ vimfiles, which has lots of cool stuff bundled. I like the dark theme that is set up (dark gray background and white foreground, and helps my sight issues).
Normally the blinking cursor is white background and black foreground. I don’t really know exactly when or how it happened (maybe when I installed CommandT), but I lost the blinking cursor… I mean, I didn’t lose it.. It was there… But it was invisible. And that annoys me ‘cause I can’t tell where I’m at in the file.
Thankfully, it’s an easy recovery. Just run what I found in Vim’s command mode:
highlight Cursor guifg