Whenever cursor jumps some distance or moves between windows, it will flash so you can see where it is. This plugin is heavily inspired by emacs package beacon.

Note: required versions neovim v0.4+ or vim v8.2+. Working on support for older versions.

1. Add the following configuration to your .vimrc.

    Plug 'danilamihailov/beacon.nvim'
   

2. Install with :PlugInstall.

Or use your favorite plugin manager

Just set

let g:beacon_enable = 0

and beacon will be disabled, but you still can use :Beacon command to highlight cursor. See commands.

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

highlight Beacon guibg=white ctermbg=15

use guibg if you have termguicolors enabled, otherwise use ctermbg.

let g:beacon_size = 40

If you only want to see beacon when cursor changes windows, you can set

let g:beacon_show_jumps = 0

and it will ignore jumps inside buffer. By default shows all jumps.

You can change what beacon considers significant jump, by changing

let g:beacon_minimal_jump = 10

You can disable shrinking animation by setting

let g:beacon_shrink = 0

enabled by default

You can disable fading animation by setting (neovim only)

let g:beacon_fade = 0

enabled by default.

You can set g:beacon_timeout to hide beacon early, by default it set to 500ms.

To ignore a buffer you can set list of regexes

g:beacon_ignore_buffers = [\w*git*\w]

To ignore filetypes you can set list of filetypes

g:beacon_ignore_filetypes = ['fzf']

There is 4 commands available.

• :Beacon highlight current position (even if plugin is disabled)
• :BeaconToggle toggle g:beacon_enable variable
• :BeaconOn enable Beacon
• :BeaconOff disable Beacon

If you want cursor to be highlighted when you jump to searches with n/N regardless of distance, use this mappings

nmap n n:Beacon<cr>
nmap N N:Beacon<cr>
nmap * *:Beacon<cr>
nmap # #:Beacon<cr>

Hide cursor line on inactive windows

augroup MyCursorLineGroup
    autocmd!
    au WinEnter * setlocal cursorline
    au WinLeave * setlocal nocursorline
augroup end

• Locate cursor after search https://github.com/inside/vim-search-pulse

Whenever plugin detects some kind of a jump, it's showing floating window at the cursor position and using winblend fades window out.