Syntax Highlighted Cursor

Use your synatx highlighting color for the neovim cursor.

Inspirations

• st - simple terminal
• kovidgoyal/kitty
• asottile/babi

Installation

If you use lazy.nvim, add:

{
    "ukyouz/syntax-highlighted-cursor.nvim",
},

Options

{
    -- If you feel updating cursor color is too often for you, try make debounce_ms bigger.
    debounce_ms = 50,

    -- If your cursor color not change immediately, try set this to true
    -- This setting adds a keymap for `:` to iteslf with quiet flag,
    -- and let vim enter command mode for a moment
    -- to force GUI refreshing cursor color.
    force_refresh_hack = false,

    -- Update Color on every cursor move
    -- If you feel laggy, try set this to false
    when_cursor_moved = true,

    -- Update Color on every cursor hold (delay is updatetime)
    when_cursor_hold = false,
}

Limitations

• Required Lua, so only work in Neovim
• Required guicursor support