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After upgrading to Mavericks the I-beam cursor in the terminal became less visible (see screenshot, I am using the Pro profile with a dark background)
Is there a way to change the cursor's color or to make it more visible? In the preferences I only managed to change the color of the text cursor.
Open a terminal window and type some of the text whose color you want to set the background the same as. Then open Terminal preferences.
Click the Window tab and then the Background Color. This brings up a color picker window. Click the magnifying glass in the upper left and move it over the text you want to match the color with. When you click on the text this will set the color you want. You could also set it directly in the RGB slider panel shown in the 2nd image which matches the text color from your image in the question.
The problem is likely due to your vim settings rather than your terminal settings.
The color you mentioned is pretty close to color 224 (of 256 colors), so you might try looking in your vim colorscheme to see if that color is used in a ctermfg= declaration.
To test and see if I'm right you could try
:syn match Foo /foo/
:hi Foo ctermfg=red
If that turns the word foo red then you know your terminal's red is working properly and it will be an issue with your vim settings.
Best Answer
As many have mentioned above, I did this -
Take a backup of existing ShadowedIBeam.tiff
Make your own cursor .... or, if you are a lazy one, just use this one -
(credit: Chris Dragon and his answer on this thread)
Then copy it over the original ShadowedIBeam.tiff
And finally, run this -
If you were as lucky as I was, you should have your eyes profusely thanking you in sheer gratitude!