Problems with cursor highlight

[sQVe]

👋🏼,

Before mentioning anything I just want to give you a huge thank you @ggandor. I've been using this plugin and lightspeed on a daily basis for a long time and they are essential to my tool kit.

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I noted today that I sometimes lost track on here my cursor was when searching with leap.nvim. After some exploration I found that it was due to poor highlighting when leap.nvim automatically jumps to the closes match, and before inputting a label.

I think the following two screenshots explains it better than any words:

As you can see in ☝🏼 there's a huge difference in how visible the cursor is. I would like the cursor to have the same highlight.

Just ping me if I need to provide any more information 🙏🏼

[ggandor]

Yes, I'm noticing the same issue with certain colorschemes. No idea about the cause, we simply use the Cursor highlight group. Hopefully this whole virtual cursor hack will soon(er or later) become irrelevant: neovim/neovim#19035.

[bmulholland]

I have a similar problem with neovim-ayu (light mode). I dug in and that theme doesn't set Cursor at all, instead using a few variants. I don't know enough about highlight groups to know if this is a bug in the theme (which should set cursor) or in leap (which should support the different cursor style). Let me know if this is something the theme should support and I'll file an issue with them.

[ggandor]

Oh, that explains it. Of course themes should define Cursor. (Note: Those other groups with "Cursor" in their names aren't related to the cursor highlight, they are for highlighting the current (=cursor) line, column, and the line number on the current line.)

[bmulholland]

Then it sounds like the bug is in the themes, not leap? (And BTW, the issue is now fixed for neovim-ayu :) )

[ggandor]

Well, yeah, it don't think it's our responsibility to define fallback settings, and to do checks in the first place - Cursor is a built-in highlight group, it should be assumed to have proper attributes. So the only thing I could suggest in these cases is to submit issues/PR-s in the corresponding colorscheme repos.

[trkoch]

I was tricked by this was well. It seems to me the default theme of Neovim has not defined Cursor either.

[ctstacey]

I was tricked by this was well. It seems to me the default theme of Neovim has not defined Cursor either.

Thanks, this got me too - and how many others? haha
Defining the "Cursor" highlight group worked for me.
(could also use other colour schemes that define the "Cursor" highlight group)

Note: :colorscheme <schemename> command only temporarily change the colour scheme.

[kiil]

Easy fix that worked for me was

vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, 'Cursor', { reverse = true })

[awerebea]

@kiil

Easy fix that worked for me was

vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, 'Cursor', { reverse = true })

This workaround doesn't work in the nvim nightly:


Any thoughts on how to fix it?

[ggandor]

Update nightly nvim (and leap), f1f19fc should have fixed the issue, no need for workarounds.