Can we please add an option to disable auto scroll on chat window?

[LovesWorking]

Can we please add an option to disable auto scroll on chat window?

Thanks.

[danperks (Dan)]

There isn’t currently a way to disable auto-scroll in the chat window. Will pass to the team to consider!

[peter-lyons-kehl]

+1 for this. Auto-scroll is annoying when following/comparing long Chat results and switching back-and-forth. Especially so

• if there is NO new output
• if following/comparing previous Chat results.

Personally, I can’t see a need/benefit/use case for auto-scroll if there is NO new output. But, if you can think of such a need/benefit/use case, please add it to the three values below.

If possible, have three alternatives (values):

• auto-scroll on new output, even if the current scroll view is not at the (current) end.
• auto-scroll on new output, if the current scroll view is at the (current) end.
• don’t auto-scroll (on new output, or on any event) at all (even if the current scroll view IS at the current end), BUT somehow indicate that there is new/more output available (blinking three dots…). Good when reading the current (existing) output.

[deanrie]

Hey, actually you can disable it on the Features tab in the Chat section.

[Christian_Kothe]

I can’t find neither a Features tab nor a Chat section in the Cursor Settings (cursor 2.0). Has this setting been removed? Auto-scroll to bottom is still happening by default, eg while typing out the next message and trying to cross-reference something further up in chat while typing.

[ycoumesgau (Yoann Coumes-Gauchet)]

Yes it’s the same for me, I searched in cursor settings and VS code settings, but found nothing about auto-scroll… @deanrie any update on the current way to disable auto-scroll in the chat/composer please ?

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for pointing this out! You’re absolutely right - the “Features” tab shown in the accepted answer from May has been replaced by “Agents” in Cursor 2.0.

Unfortunately, this setting was removed in the latest version of Cursor. If you’d like to see it come back, you can create a feature request in the Feature Requests section.

[KES (Eugen)]

Another good feature which should just work is that during streaming window should not continues scrolling to bottom if I scrolled a bit. This is how all shells work.