Vim CursorLine color change in insert mode

Question

There is good snippet for changing cursor color:

if &term =~ \"xterm\\\\|rxvt\"
  \" use an orange cursor in insert mode
  let &t_SI = \"\\]12         


        

Answer 1

This is pretty straightforward, put the following in your .vimrc or custom colorscheme file.

set cursorline
autocmd InsertEnter * highlight CursorLine guifg=white guibg=blue ctermfg=white ctermbg=blue
autocmd InsertLeave * highlight CursorLine guifg=white guibg=darkblue ctermfg=white ctermbg=darkblue

For more information see:

• :help 'cursorline'
• :help :autocmd
• :help InsertEnter
• :help :highlight

N.B: You can use the same method to change the colour of the cursor without all of those if-statements and escape-sequences (and this will also work in GVim).