Cursor editor stops formatting text

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The editor stopped formatting my files on save. I used to be able to reload developer window, but that doesn’t work anymore and I shouldn’t have to do that anyways. This seems to be happening since my recent app update.

Steps to Reproduce

tab some text so it’s unformatted and save the file

Expected Behavior

format pretty

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.0.16 (Universal)

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

4

Here’s how it was resolved:

What fixed it

The blocker was this repo’s .vscode/settings.json: [php].editor.formatOnSave was false, so Cursor never ran any PHP formatter on save, no matter what you picked as default.

We:

  1. Set [php].editor.formatOnSave to true so save runs your default PHP formatter again.

  2. Removed the Run-on-Save + CLI Pint block so nothing else was fighting format-on-save.

  3. Stopped forcing a workspace default formatter so your choice (Intelephense vs Laravel Pint, etc.) sticks.