Am Mon, 10 Apr 2017 05:00:26 +0000 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > I am playing around with colorschemes in vim and came across a > problem: It seems impossible to change the fore-/background color of > the cursor itself. $TERM is xterm-256color and vim itself offers > settings for the color of the cursor. Different colortests for > terminals validate that the terminal is able to display 256 colors. > > Is there something special terminal-wise when setting cursor colors ? > Why does it fail? > > Thanks a lot in advance for any help!
Usually the cursor has the color of the character cell, thus if there's a red character, the cursor would be red. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.
