When using "Vintage" or better "Vintageous" Mode in Sublime Text 3, it can become very difficult to keep track of your cursor location. In vim this is solved by having a "block" cursor, which is very easy to spot no matter where it is on screen. Unfortunately, Sublime Text 3 does not (yet) support this feature natively. This Plugin mimics this functionality by highlighting the area behind the cursor whenever it moves (similar to how you might highlight syntax errors, or color a comment).

This version of the Plugin is based on the original work of netpro2k + pull request of ShengYun

The original author of the Plugin does not support it any longer, so you can't get this with Package Control If you have the Package Control installed, you can install SublimeBlockCursor from inside Sublime Text itself. Open the Command Palette and select "Package Control: Install Package", then search for SublimeBlockCursor and you're done!

Go to your Sublime Text 3 Packages directory:

Windows: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/

and clone the repository there

git clone git://github.com/:Lubomir-Russia/SublimeBlockCursor.git

You can change the style of the block cursor by adding a section to your theme file like so:

<dict>
	<key>name</key>
	<string>Block Cursor</string>
	<key>scope</key>
	<string>block_cursor</string>
	<key>settings</key>
	<dict>
		<key>foreground</key>
		<string>#212121</string>
		<key>background</key>
		<string>#9ca9b7</string>
	</dict>
</dict>

In addition you can add colour blinking underlining to the cursor by adding to the "settings" section of your theme:

	<key>caret</key>
	<string>#00FF00</string>

And to your user preferences:

"caret_extra_width": 4,
"caret_style": "blink",