Highlight iCursor guifg=white guibg=steelblue Here is an example for gvim showing how to customize the cursor properties (see :help 'guicursor'): Using gvim with the defaults, the cursor shape is a block when in n-v-c modes (normal mode, or visual selection mode, or command mode while entering a colon command), and the shape changes to a vertical bar when in i (insert) mode. To help avoid that problem, you can specify that the cursor color and blink rate change when entering insert mode. You may start typing, thinking you are in insert mode, but find that the characters are interpreted as commands because you are actually in normal mode. 1 Changing the cursor color in insert modeĬhanging the cursor color in insert mode.
