/edit Apply changes is awesome! (I made a feature request for it)
It used to be almost perfect! At the moment it seems to try to achieve too much. Garbles my code very frequently - going back to copy paste is no fun.
Suggested improvements:
Apply only current code box I clicked. Often only this one makes sense, and much less chance to f*ck up parts of the edit.
Consider the actual code in my edit tab. Often it reverts back to older versions from the chat, or does not “see” my manual changes. Frustrating.
Generally it clings too much to ancient parts of a conversation. Starting a new chat is a clunky workaround, where I also lose part of the useful context.
After “apply change”: pressing Cmd-L often jumps to the wrong dialog (not the last). Makes me lose part of conversations, and is messy.
Very true! “Apply” is kinda taking a shortcut right now by just creating a new message with the edit slash command and a generic message. This could be done way better.
Also seeing these things. In particular, when I try to apply a relatively minor change, often the entire file will be changed, sometimes nonsensically. I end up copy-pasting a lot.
A related question: Are there any plans to increase the limit for file length to more than 400 lines for /edit? Love this feature, would be awesome to be able to use it in more files!
The “Apply” changes are live in the Nightly build.
But I think it’s still not just focusing on the changes of the current code box you clicked. For example here I only clicked on the “Apply to codebase” button from the first AI message, but it also did the changes from the second AI message.
Downloading nightly rn to test. As my project is getting bigger the “apply” is becoming crucial to function correctly, because in order for me to make a change I have to make small changes in 3-4 interconnected files and the default apply is getting buggy.
Also if the limit increases from 400 to let’s say 800+ lines it would also be a lifesaver, currently I am continually deleting snippets of code in order to press “Apply” and for it to function.
Besides my suggestions, I might as well add that because of you guys after 4 months, I have almost completed making a full react native app that utilizes dozens of eBay API’s, while also hosting multiple data to my own google cloud SQL and Render for APIs
I do not have any knowledge of JavaScript,SQL or Python and the app is 100% generated by Cursor, no manual code inserted. It’s really remarkable what you have accomplished, congrats!
