Explicitly set cursor color

[kuporific]

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Describe the solution you'd like?

Ability to choose the color of the cursor, either independent of theme or as a specific option in the theme YAML definition

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

In text editors like vim, the cursor often blends in because the color too closely matches the rest of the theme colors (it also does not blink despite having "Blinking cursor" enabled, which might be a bug). If I could set the cursor color to bright green, magenta, bright red, etc it would be much easier to find.

Additional context

I have a hard time finding the cursor

I don't know of any workaround.

Maybe it could be implemented as Settings > Appearance > Cursor > cursor color and/or a specific value in a theme.yaml file.

Relates to #2181

How important is this feature to you?

4

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[dannyneira]

Thanks for this feature request @kuporific

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Just want to set the expectations that we're unlikely to implement this soon, but if anything changes, we'll post updates on this thread.

[Ashkin]

This is the single most frustrating thing about Warp. When I have a dark blue background, why is the cursor also dark blue (or black)!? When it's dark green, the cursor is also dark green! and if it's hiding under a character with a bright foreground color, that further masks the subtle contrast making it feel like a "Where's Waldo" book. At a guess, I spent an eighth of my time in the terminal just searching for the bloody cursor. Often, even moving the cursor around isn't enough to spot it.

Please fix this. It makes the terminal extremely difficult and frustrating to use.

[fartybum]

Unfortunately, I cannot use Warp with the cursor colour the way it is - back to Terminal for me. I heartily agree with Ashkin's comment though and hope the issue can be resolved soon.

[dannyneira]

hey folks, we'll be adding this request to the roadmap, no firm eta on release, but we're aware it's a blocker and will be working on it. We'll post updates on this thread.

[deathblade287]

has this feature been added? Why can't I get a white cursor with the dark theme?

[nephel]

+1

using set cursorline cursorcolumn for vim in the meantime

[mearleycf]

+1

using set cursorline cursorcolumn for vim in the meantime

Unfortunately, I'm using Warp.app, and it doesn't work in that terminal...:(

[Amir-hossein-Mazaheri]

+1

[fartybum]

+1

[deathblade287]

+1

[yoansjghs]

Do we have any update about the ETA of this bugfix ? Almost a year since this has been opened and still no solution or whatsoever this is so annoying.

[alokedesai]

Hi all, thanks for your patience. We have someone actively working on this. No ETA yet but we expect for this to be fixed soon.

[ImCylon]

+1

[perez31000]

+1

[devloos]

+1

[GavrilenkoYaroslav]

+1

[vicshulha]

+1

[LynceanLumberfi]

+1

[J-P-Robin]

+1

[noisydump]

+1

[TonyDo99]

+1

[dannyneira]

Hey Folks, this feature has launched with the latest release of Warp.
You can now add cursor: '#<hex color value>' to your custom theme yaml files to customize your cursor! Please see an example in our docs.

Closing as resolved, but please update and let us know what you think or any issues.

[noisydump]

Just tested, works like a charm, thanks for your work 👍

[GavrilenkoYaroslav]

Thanks guys!

[perez31000]

Thank you !!

[Beadle85]

Thank you so much for this!!!! 🚀

[J-P-Robin]

It would be great if we could control the foreground color also. Currently, setting a custom cursor changes only the cursor background, and with syntax highlighted code, the foreground color is not always the same.

By allowing to control both foreground and background cursor colors, we could make sure these remain always the same.

Another approach would be to allow the shell or text editor to change the cursor colors. Vim can change it, but it seems Warp does not support this. It would be great if we could set both foreground and background cursor colors as default, but allow the shell to overwrite it.

Here's an example of what it currently looks when setting the cursor color with syntax highlighted code (in NeoVim), the contrast is not great: