By "rail" I mean the vertical bar on the left where the > shows the selected item.
For me, the different background of the selection is enough to indicate which is the selected item and the rail with the > pointer doesn't feel necessary.
Or at least allow that rail to be colorable independently of other elements.
@erusev I don't think it's possible, but you could atleast set it to match the background color of fzf
(fzf --color=dark,bg+:234,bg:234). See the "Display" section of the man page.
The closest you can do is to set the color of bg+ to match that of bg as suggested by @cevhyruz. Since bg by default uses the default background color of the terminal. You can just set bg+ to -1 to have the same effect.
fzf --color=bg+:-1
I'm not planning to add more options for tweaking minor visual elements, trying not to bloat fzf with ni che features few people actually use.
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Or at least allow that rail to be colorable independently of other elements.