Allow Cursor to read from .cursorrules.md

Feature Requests
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I was wondering if it’d be possible for Cursor to read from .cursorrules.md in addition to .cursorrules? Or perhaps allow users to specify custom paths to their rules files?

This isn’t a very urgent FR. But it would mean that both GitHub and the VSCode behaviour in Cursor would treat the file as markdown, which would make it a lot easier to read.

I’ve found that for really long prompts, it can be helpful to take full advantage of markdown headings, etc.

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@varungodbole you can just change the file association settings for .cursorrules files to markdown so that your editor treats it like markdown. You can try

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or adding

  //...
  "files.associations": {
    ".cursorrules": "markdown"
  }

the above block to your settings.json

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