Hi cursor team, i just created an account in this forum to ask you if you could please bring back the feature that made cursor great (beside tabs): separate composer window with notepad and diff view.
I don’t think you realize how phenomenal the DX and productivity was for us, embedded-C programmers (IoT and stuff), with this feature. i have been recommending cursor to my colleagues and we don’t understand why you removed one of your key differenciating factor.
You guys know better how competitive your space is and how easy it is for us users to switch tools. IMO without the original composer, cursor is no better than Cline or Github copilot.
I think you should at least offer the choice to users to activate it.
A lot of new users to Composer found this view to be overwhelming, and we’ve made some changes since that allows you to move the Composer into an editor tab, or floating bar, which reinforced our decision to remove it at the time.
While we may add this back in the future, you should be able to open the Composer as an Editor using this setting:
Then, you can open a Notebook below, and have your files on the side to show your diff as it edits, like so. We did this to allow more flexibility when laying out your editor, as people with multiple screens or ultra-wide monitor might want it laid out different to someone working on their laptop!
I checked it and it should emulate the previous composer.
One downside is that every time i reboot cursor, i need to re-do the separate editor layout, not as lean as the previous design with the keyboard shortcut.
Anyway i guess we can live with it for now but yeah, if you could bring back the previous composer as an option that would be even better Thanks Dan !
Glad to hear you can recreate what you are looking for!
Saving the layout currently isn’t a feature in Cursor, but you may try this 3rd party extension that apparently can save and restore editor layouts: GitHub - ctf0/vscode-save-editor-layout
Also- ensure that there is a color palette for each cursor session window(s) to have unique color - basically assign a workspace color so I don’t get confused which session I’m looking at as all my dark mode windows sessions all look the same….
Thanks Dan !