Cursorline and statusline backgrounds indistinguishable in split windows

[sainnhe]

Cursorline and statusline backgrounds indistinguishable in split windows

[antoineco]

@rameshsanth this looks more like a problem of interoperability than a problem with the color scheme itself.

What color would you suggest instead of the current behavior?

[antoineco]

I'm going to go ahead and close this issue because it is old and inactive, but as a final word please note that it is a well accepted convention for color schemes to use the same background color for CursorLine
/CursorColumn and StatusLine. I'm not saying it is necessarily a good practice, but here are some examples of this convention among very popular Vim color schemes:

🎨 Gruvbox

🎨 Nord

🎨 Dracula

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My personal recommendation is to use a syntax highlight override inside your vimrc and adjust the cursorline color to something that matches your preferences.

In the example below, I'm setting it to Everforest's bg_green color (which doesn't clash with CursorLine but clashes with DiffAdd so it wouldn't be a good default either):

📄 .vimrc (Vim)

" .vimrc

" Apply custom highlights on colorscheme change.
" Must be declared before executing ':colorscheme'.
augroup custom_highlights_everforest
  autocmd!
  " cursorline
  autocmd ColorScheme everforest 
  \       hi CursorLine   guibg=#445349 |
  \       hi CursorColumn guibg=#445349
augroup END

colorscheme everforest

📄 init.lua (Neovim)

-- init.lua (Neovim)

-- Apply custom highlights on colorscheme change.
-- Must be declared before executing ':colorscheme'.
grpid = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup('custom_highlights_everforest', {})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('ColorScheme', {
  group = grpid,
  pattern = 'everforest',
  command = -- cursorline
            'hi CursorLine   guibg=#445349 |' ..
            'hi CursorColumn guibg=#445349'
})

vim.cmd'colorscheme everforest'

Result: