Chat.editor.fontsize setting has no effect

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I know this is a setting for copilot’s chat window, but I was hoping it would also allow me to change the size of code snippet’s in Cursor chat view as well.

As things stand, the font size of the snippets in the chat are way too large for my liking, and I cannot change them, which I am able to do using the chat.editor.fontsize setting for copilot view.

Is there an equivalent setting for Cursor chat? If not, can you please reuse the same configuration key or provide an alternative to configure this setting?

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we plan to add this! should be shipped soon.

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Thank you!

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+1 on the desire for a font size setting for the AI Chat window.
Also, for code snippets also use the same font family as the main editor.

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Can anyone please tell me how to access the setting mentioned, ie:

Chat.editor.fontsize

I pressed Ctrl + Shift + P to open command palette.

I then searched for Chat.editor.fontsize and the only options presented are:

  • Open Chat in Editor
  • Cancel Chat
  • Cursor: Open Chat
  • Developer: Log Chat Input History
  • Insert Selection Into Chat

If I click on ‘Similar Commands’ it just moves the chat from the Side Panel to the Edit area in a tab.

If I open Cursor settings with Ctrl + Shift + J, I cannot see any settings related to:

  • Font Size of the Cursor interface elements
  • Font Size of the text within the Cursor chats
  • Font size of the code within Cursor chat code snippets

I’ve tried to ignore the small font size in Cursor, but I keep having the thought “I need to make the font size bigger!”.

Edit:

In case it helps others, this workaround makes Cursor font size better for me:

  • Zoom the Cursor interface to zoom level 1 with Ctrl + =

  • Enable Mouse Wheel Zoom (In Settings > Editor: Mouse Wheel Zoom)

  • Click in the Editor area and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease font size as desired

  • Now:

    • the Cursor interface elements and font size are good
    • the Editor font size is good

:ok_hand:

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I use the APC extension and it allows me to change any part of the interface using CSS.

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I wonder if it ‘rewrites’ VS Code CSS and could therefore ‘break’ things.

Or if it just ‘overrides’ VS Code CSS (like an !important statement) so it is relatively safe, as you can just uninstall the extension and the ‘overrides’ will be removed.

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Yes, that’s right. Nothing will break. The extension just applies CSS overrides. After removing the extension, the overrides will be removed and nothing will happen to the original CSS.

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