Answers: osx - Customize vim cursor style under Mac OS X Terminal

Xiao Jia

I want to customize the vim cursor to be a blinking rectangle block. I tried this and this and many other similar stuffs after some searches, but none of them works as expected.

Currently my cursor is an non-blinking underline in grey (i.e. the underline below character "e" in the last line below), which is pretty hard to recognize.

underline cursor

When the cursor is over a parenthesis character, it becomes a block. (Actually I believe this is a change in background color) What I want is to have this block all the time, and blinking.

block cursor

I have nothing related to cursor style in my .vimrc file. I am using Mac OS X 10.9, Terminal Version 2.4 (326), and oh-my-zsh. In Terminal settings, I use Pro theme and set cursor to underline. I can change this to block so the cursor in vim changes as well, but I need the underline cursor in a normal Terminal.

terminal settings

Nate Mara

You may want to try adding this to your vimrc:

if exists('$TMUX')
    let &t_SI = "\<Esc>Ptmux;\<Esc>\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7\<Esc>\\"
    let &t_EI = "\<Esc>Ptmux;\<Esc>\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7\<Esc>\\"
else
    let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7"
    let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7"
endif

That should provide the correct escape sequences for tmux or iTerm.

I also found this plugin that auto changes the cursor based on the current mode.

ubuntu - Colors in Vim via gnome terminal are not the same with gVim

ubuntu terminal vim gvim

user22727

why is it that the colors when using the color scheme 'blackboard' via Vim in gnome terminal is not the same as when I use the same theme in gVim? i.e. the background is black while on gVim it's blue and the function names are not colroed etc. Only a few parts of teh code are colored.

Here's my .vimrc

filetype plugin indent on
set number
let &t_Co=256

Also on my Profile Preferences > Colors tab, I got: Bulit-in Schemes: Green on Black Built-in schemes: XTerm

Related Answers

Simon Walker

Take a look at CSApprox - very good at matching colourschemes (in linux at least - in OSX the default terminal does not have enough colours)

Fairly simple to set up - just configure how many colours are usable by your terminal and put the needed information in your .vimrc

Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski

Vim running in a terminal emulator uses so-called ANSI codes to display color. gVim doesn't relay on terminal emulation, and can use any RGB color it likes.

In the color scheme declaration that's guifg & guibg entries for gVim, and ctermfg & ctermbg entries for terminal emulators. See

:help syntax

for more details about differences between syntax highlighting between vim working inside a terminal emulator and as a standalone GUI program.

mrucci

Take a look at this vim tips wiki page were two solutions for making consistent colorschemes between terminals and GUI are discussed.

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