Highlighting the current line number in vim

Question

Is there a way to highlight only the current line number (in the left hand coloumn) in vim, without highlighting the background of the current line? Ideally, I

Answer 1

You can set cursorline to highlight only the numbers

'cursorlineopt' 'culopt' string (default: "number,line")                        
                        local to window                                         
                        {not available when compiled without the +syntax        
                        feature}                                                
        Comma separated list of settings for how 'cursorline' is displayed.     
        Valid values:                                                           
        "line"          Highlight the text line of the cursor with              
                        CursorLine hl-CursorLine.                               
        "screenline"    Highlight only the screen line of the cursor with       
                        CursorLine hl-CursorLine.                               
        "number"        Highlight the line number of the cursor with            
                        CursorLineNr hl-CursorLineNr.             

And to override your colorscheme use autocmd

So, the following works:

set cursorline
set cursorlineopt=number
autocmd ColorScheme * highlight CursorLineNr cterm=bold term=bold gui=bold