How to hide cursor line when focus is in another window in vim

Question

In my vimrc file, I have this set cursorline option. I want to hide this line if this window is not in focus. Is there any way in vim to do this? See This

Answer 1

In essence, these are just the following autocmds:

 augroup CursorLine au! au VimEnter * setlocal cursorline au WinEnter * setlocal cursorline au BufWinEnter * setlocal cursorline au WinLeave * setlocal nocursorline augroup END 

But sometimes you can define exceptions (that is, always on or off) for certain windows. This may be useful for my CursorLineCurrentWindow plugin .

Answer 2

It looks like you want the mouse cursor to turn on when you enter the vim buffer and off when you leave it. These commands in the vimrc file accomplished this:

 autocmd BufEnter * set cursorline autocmd BufLeave * set nocursorline