Fix MatchParen disappearing cursor bug when running vim in Cygwin termin... #5
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When running vim in the Cygwin terminal, the MatchParen ctermbg definition makes the lightblue cursor background turn to black when a paren is being matched. This is particularly confusing when using the Dark or Black colorscheme (effectively, the cursor disappears so it's easy to mistake the matched paren as a "new" cursor, which is very confusing...).
I was not able to determine the cause of this behaviour, but have discovered that choosing a different but similar color from the 256 color table fixes the problem. Given this slight change of color is virtually unnoticeable, I think this is a reasonable workaround.