Code change preview in chat no longer navigates to the source location

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Previously, the small code-change preview shown in the Cursor chat would take you directly to the exact location in the code where the change was made. Now it only shows a small snippet, and clicking on it doesn’t navigate anywhere. This breaks a very useful workflow and makes reviewing changes unnecessarily frustrating. Being able to jump immediately to the modified code is essential, it would be great to have this behavior restored. thanks

Steps to Reproduce

Open a project in Cursor.

Make a code change via chat .

Observe the small code-change preview shown in the chat.

Click on the preview.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.4.27 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 4f2b772756b8f609e1354b3063de282ccbe7a690
Date: 2026-01-31T21:24:58.143Z (3 days ago)
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.2.7
Chromium: 142.0.7444.235
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report.

This looks like a regression. This behavior should definitely work. I’ll share it with the team so they can check why navigation stopped working.

A couple quick questions:

  • Does this happen in both Chat and Agent mode, or only one of them?
  • Have you recently changed any settings related to review or the editor?

Let me know if you find a workaround. For now, for review you can use the review panel (the “Review” button in chat) or open files manually from the changes list.