Zaibatsu: cursor visibility issue

[romainl]

(from an email received on my personal address, user says they can't use GitHub)

Hi,

I use zaibatsu in vim as my colortheme, i have 2 problems:

First:

i find insert-mode the match bucket is white background is confilict with cursor color,

so i can not notice where is cursor position.

example:

(word|)

when cursor position at |，the () bucket will highlight white background, and can not notice where is cusror.

Another question is:
the status bar background is white, i think it not look good for an dark color theme.
may be https://helix-editor.com/ status bar is good look.

please fix zaibatsu, thanks ;p

[habamax]

it probably is more about gvim and less so tui vim:

normal

insert

[habamax]

Although, in TUI it is a bit easier if cursor shape is not being changed between normal/insert:

but if terminal cursor is white -- it would be indeed quite confusing no matter cursor shape..

[romainl]

MatchParen is reverse while Cursor has a yellow background so there will indeed be a problem if the bracket under the cursor is yellow.

I can fix it by giving MatchParen explicit color attributes.

[razzius]

Following @romainl's lead, here's how I set MatchParen colors in my vimrc. I just hardcoded it to be white (the same color as the cursor on whitespace):

colorscheme zaibatsu
autocmd ColorScheme zaibatsu highlight MatchParen ctermfg=white ctermbg=NONE cterm=NONE
syntax on

Here's how it looks without this config (buggy invisible cursor):

And with this change (you can see the cursor):

In both cases, the cursor is on the inner open parenthesis in the body of the function. The screenshots are from Vim 9.1 on Ubuntu 24.10 using Gnome Terminal on a Raspberry Pi 5.

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It would be great to fix the root issue so workarounds like this wouldn't be necessary :)

[grr]

It's even worse if you use the matchup plugin. It extends the matchparen highlighting to language-specific constructs. In this example the yellow cursor is who-knowns-where in the highlighted yellow attribute: