Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug When the terminal is docked inside the main Cursor window, pressing Ctrl+L correctly adds the terminal output to the AI chat. But if I move the terminal into a separate detached window, the same shortcut no longer adds the te…

Hey, thanks for the report. This looks like a bug in the standalone terminal window mode. Could you share: The log from Help > Toggle Developer Tools while pressing Ctrl+L in the standalone window The output of Developer: Toggle Keyboard Shortcuts Troubleshooting after pressing Ctrl+L in both cas…

The log from Help > Toggle Developer Tools while pressing Ctrl+L in the standalone window I opened Help Help > Toggle Developer Tools and a separate window appeared of Developer Tools. I opened Console and pressed Ctrl+L. Just nothing appeared in Console. At the same time AI Chat removed (toggles…

I found some keybindings here [image]

Also i found out that when i first set focus to somewhere else from ai chat say to an opened file, then move focus to integrated terminal, then select needed piece of logs from terminal and then press Ctrl+L - it does exactly what i need, it passed that data into ai chat. So to make this work i need…

Thanks for the additional details! Great find with the focus switching workaround. I’ll help you find the right endpoints: Developer: Toggle Keyboard Shortcuts Troubleshooting: Press Ctrl+Shift+P (Command Palette) Type “keyboard shortcuts troubleshooting” Select “Developer: Toggle Keyboard Short…

Keyboard logs with detached window upon Ctrl+L: 2025-12-17 21:43:22.301 [info] [Window] [KeybindingService]: / Soft dispatching keyboard event 2025-12-17 21:43:22.301 [info] [Window] [KeybindingService]: \ Keyboard event cannot be dispatched 2025-12-17 21:43:22.301 [info] [Window] [KeybindingSe…

Also i noticed that sometimes pressing Ctrl+L just deletes all the info in AI Chat withouy any change to restore that info! So i write a lot of text, then try to append lines from terminal, press Ctrl+L and all m text just evaporates without adding those lines from terminal ((

Thanks for the detailed logs, they were really helpful. The keybinding fires correctly in both cases (aichat.newchataction), but the terminal context doesn’t get passed through when the terminal is in a detached window. Before I pass this to the team, let’s rule out settings. Please test with a te…

Ran cursor with “cursor --user-data-dir %TEMP%\cursor-test-profile --extensions-dir %TEMP%\cursor-test-extensions“. Open the terminal Ctrl+J Select some text, press Ctrl+L. Does it work? Entered some text, presssed Ctrl+L - added text to Ai Chat and AI Chat windows disappeared Detach the t…

Thanks for testing with a clean profile. That confirms this is a Cursor-side bug, not caused by settings or extensions. I’ll share these findings with the team: Ctrl+L in a detached terminal is inconsistent. Sometimes the context is included, sometimes it isn’t. The “Add to Chat” button is missin…

Ctrl+L doesn’t add terminal context when the terminal is in a detached window

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I found some keybindings here

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Ctrl+L doesn’t add terminal context when the terminal is in a detached window

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