Cursor Chat in Editor Tab is buggy

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

  • When I use Cursor chat via an editor tab (as opposed to via the panel) I’m unable to use the command+i hotkey to focus on the chat editor tab. Instead what happens is that the editor tab closes, and I have to hit command+i again to show the chat panel (it doesn’t reopen as a editor tab).
  • When I use Cursor chat via an editor tab, I’m unable to select a historical chat. The history shows, but when I click it nothing happens.

This breaks the ability to quickly provide code snippet context to cursor while using the chat as editor tab since you have to hit command+i to do that while you’ve highlighted a code snippet.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open Cursor
  2. Pop out as editor tab
  3. Move the editor tab to a different monitor than your IDE
  4. Go back to your IDE
  5. Highlight code
  6. Key command+i

Expected Behavior

The editor tab cursor chat should stay open and should receive the highlighted code as context, like it does when the chat is in the panel.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.5.5 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 823f58d4f60b795a6aefb9955933f3a2f0331d70
Date: 2025-08-25T17:40:25.290Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
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

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Hey, thanks for the report. We’ll investigate this.

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