Beacon.nvim - never lose your cursor again!

Highlight cursor when it moves, changes windows and more! This plugin is heavily inspired by emacs package beacon.

https://github.com/DanilaMihailov/beacon.nvim/assets/1163040/df4a603e-66c7-4bdb-9704-54a168d59ee7

Installation

lazy.nvim

{ 'danilamihailov/beacon.nvim' } -- lazy calls setup() by itself

Or use your favorite plugin manager, you'll need to call setup require('beacon').setup()

[!NOTE] For Vim versions checkout v1 tags v1.3.4

Customization

Default config

 {
  enabled = true, --- (boolean | fun():boolean) check if enabled
  speed = 2, --- integer speed at wich animation goes
  width = 40, --- integer width of the beacon window
  winblend = 70, --- integer starting transparency of beacon window :h winblend
  fps = 60, --- integer how smooth the animation going to be
  min_jump = 10, --- integer what is considered a jump. Number of lines
  cursor_events = { 'CursorMoved' }, -- table<string> what events trigger check for cursor moves
  window_events = { 'WinEnter', 'FocusGained' }, -- table<string> what events trigger cursor highlight
  highlight = { bg = 'white', ctermbg = 15 }, -- vim.api.keyset.highlight table passed to vim.api.nvim_set_hl
}

Changing color

Beacon is highlighted by Beacon group, so you can change it like this:

vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, 'Beacon', { bg = 'white' })

or simplier way is to change highlight params in config

check :help nvim_set_hl() for more options.

[!NOTE] checkout doc/beacon.txt for more

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