Copy/paste UX is incredibly frustrating

[John_Wilkinson]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Copy/paste UX is incredibly frustrating.

Basically every element of the UI now makes it so that attempting to copy paste something into the agent chat merely references line numbers. This is at best an antipattern. The prevents me from marking up what I am trying to communicate, from editing it, from double checking the value, from embedding it in a specific location in the prompt. And there is no obvious way to work around this.

A really clear example of how this fails is if I cut text and then past it into that window, the lines are referenced but the text does not exist because I removed it.

Please make the default be standard UX that has worked for decades. If I want to add the general location to the chat, give me a context window option that I can select (which existed previously).

Steps to Reproduce

Simply try to use copy paste (or for the truly broke behavior, cut/paste)

Expected Behavior

The actual text should be placed into the agent prompt.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.3 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: e50823e9ded15fddfd743c7122b4724130c25df0
Date: 2025-08-08T17:34:53.060Z (2 mos ago)
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.1.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[MidnightOak]

I agree 100%. I created a feature request for this exact thing.

Add Pasted Code Segment File and Line Numbers In Prompt Message

Feature request for product/service Cursor IDE Describe the request When pasting code into chat, add the literal filename and line numbers in the prompt message where the code was pasted so the prompt can specifically refer to them, instead of the current functionality where pasted code is just added to the context of the entire prompt with no effect of where it was pasted in the prompt message. By having the filename and line numbers as literal text in the request, it allows giving specific i…

Also the changelog says they added this or something related, maybe its invisible.

Code pasted from files and the terminal is now explicitly mentioned in Chat, making conversations clearer and easier to follow

[MidnightOak]

@andrewh Could you shine some light on this improvement?
changelog:

Code pasted from files and the terminal is now explicitly mentioned in Chat, making conversations clearer and easier to follow