How to stop highlighting character in normal mode

[nikitavoloboev]

When I hover over a character in normal mode. Like here I am hovering over S char:

Is it possible to turn off it highlighting the character in grey color. And only start highlighting it when I go in VISUAL mode and highlight more than one char?

I believe I had this before but I tried out Monokai Pro theme and then later changed back to Ayu and I have this now and it's annoying me. 😞

[guillermooo]

I don't change themes much, only color schemes when the lighting conditions require it, so I wouldn't know about themes impacting the fake block cursor appearance.

As far as I know, the block cursor implementation in ST is sadly very lacking and I don't think you can control any aspect of it beyond some padding. Since I only know the basics about themes and color schemes, I can't really figure out easily if this is something that can be modified or not, but Six doesn't style the caret in any way that I can recall. It simply switches from insert mode to command mode, which triggers the changes in the way the caret is drawn.

What I've observed is that by setting highlight_line to true in your User/Default.sublime-settings, the caret's background color blends with the line's background color.

If I set that option to false, I get approximately the same as you:

[DrBones]

This, is sadly very true. The blockcursor implementation is more of a hack than a supported Sublime Text feature. Hopefully they implement a proper way to customize is at some point :)!

Until then, there are certain combinations of the selection and line_highlight alpha values that produce different styles of cursors. @gerardroche had some very insightful things to say over at the Neovintagous repo here: NeoVintageous/NeoVintageous#342

It boils down to @guillermooo's solution to setting the line_highlight in your theme file to something without alpha value (for my case only 3 hex numbers). Something like this:

<key>lineHighlight</key>
        <string>#c3c3c3</string>

Note that the newer theme and syntax files have a much nicer syntax but the the mehtod is the same, make sure that the line_highlight has only three color values!