Cursor moves out of prompt area when moving up using arrow keys

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Lost of focus on the prompt textarea when pressing the up arrow key when using multi-line text.

Steps to Reproduce

Start typing a new prompt with multiple lines. Then try to go up to the top line in the prompt using the up arrow key. Sometimes the focus goes to the previous messages in the AI chat.

Expected Behavior

In the text area with multiple lines, when pressing the up arrow key, the cursor should move up in the text and not focus to the previous messages in the AI chat.

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.34
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 45fd70f3fe72037444ba35c9e51ce86a1977ac10
Date: 2025-10-29T06:51:29.202Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.14.0-33-generic

For AI issues: which model did you use?

N/A

For AI issues: add Request ID with privacy disabled

N/A

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey, thanks for the report. I can reproduce it. I’ll pass it to the team.

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