Setting Vim cursorline colors?

Question

I have tried to look at other answers here on SO and Google but none of them seem to be changing my cursor settings. I am wanting to have a background of yellow with foreground of white bold but can't get it with the settings that I have seen around the web. I am using MacVim mvim in iTerm2.

Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

Most likely you are interested in these three highlighting groups: Cursor, CursorColumn and CursorLine. The names are self explanatory.

For example to change just the cursor color:

:highlight Cursor ctermfg=White ctermbg=Yellow cterm=bold guifg=white guibg=yellow gui=bold

To do the same for column cursor:

:highlight CursorColumn ctermfg=White ctermbg=Yellow cterm=bold guifg=white guibg=yellow gui=bold

If you also need to highlight the current line, use CursorLine.

Answer 2

If you wants to keep it enable always put the below things in your .vimrc or .gvimrc file

for cursorline

set cursorline
autocmd InsertEnter * highlight CursorLine guibg=#000050 guifg=fg
autocmd InsertLeave * highlight CursorLine guibg=#004000 guifg=fg

for cursor column

set cursorcolumn
autocmd InsertEnter * highlight CursorColumn ctermfg=White ctermbg=Yellow cterm=bold guifg=white guibg=yellow gui=bold
autocmd InsertLeave * highlight CursorColumn ctermfg=Black ctermbg=Yellow cterm=bold guifg=Black guibg=yellow gui=NONE

You can change the colors in your wish