CLI input field bouncing around is driving me crazy

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Feature request for product/service

Cursor CLI

Describe the request

Hey team,
Love Cursor, but the CLI has one UX issue that’s annoying as hell: the input field bounces all over the place during
long conversations.

What’s happening

When I’m working through a problem in the CLI (especially in tmux), every response pushes the input field further up
the screen. After a few exchanges, I’m typing somewhere in the middle of my terminal instead of at the bottom where
my eyes and muscle memory expect it to be.
It’s particularly painful during:

  • Long debugging sessions
  • Multi-step troubleshooting
  • Any conversation that goes beyond a few messages

What would help

Could we get an option to lock the input field to the bottom of the terminal? Like how basically every chat app
works (Slack, Discord, etc.)?
Doesn’t need to be fancy - could be:

  • A setting in the config
  • A --fixed-input flag
  • Even just a keyboard shortcut to toggle it

Current workaround

There isn’t really one, other than constantly starting new chat sessions (which loses context) or switching to the
GUI (which some of us prefer to avoid).

Am I the only one this is driving nuts, or are others experiencing this too?

Operating System (if it applies)

Linux

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driving me nuts as well. and cursor would scroll thru thousands of lines of previous chat history every time when the chat box was overwritten by the scrolling text it generated, so that it could place the chat box and blinking cursor there again. it would be nice if there’s a mechanism there to make sure the input box not get overwritten by its output. and prevent the crazy scrolling!