Setting Vim cursorline colors?

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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.

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possible duplicate of [VIM Highlight the whole current line](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8750792/vim-highlight-the-whole-current-line) — Jeff B, Mar 20 '15 at 14:01
Not a duplicate. @pertrai1 is already using the options, as can be seen on the screenthot. — svlasov, Mar 20 '15 at 14:13
@JeffBridgman - No, if you look at my screenshot I already have those set that are answered in the possible duplicate — pertrai1, Mar 21 '15 at 15:40

score 24 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 22 '18 at 18:26

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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.

edited Sep 22 '18 at 18:26

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answered Mar 20 '15 at 13:28

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sorry for the beginner part of me asking this question: how would I set this in my .vimrc file? When i did it in normal mode it worked great, but I want it to stay like that all the time. Thank you for bearing with me on this. – pertrai1 Mar 20 '15 at 13:47
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Copy paste them to `.vimrc` without the leading `:`. – svlasov Mar 20 '15 at 13:48

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 23 '15 at 10:10

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

Setting Vim cursorline colors?

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