Cursor NEEDS a line-specific "ignore" directive!

Feature Requests
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Cursor is awesome, but too many times it messes with completely unrelated areas of my code. I’ve seen several issues posted here on the forum of the same problem, so I think a fix to this would be appreciated widely.

This problem has grown so bad for me that on every prompt, there are a dozen or so lines of code that I have to Reject every single time. It’s still usable, but it’s slowing me down greatly.

We need a method like code fences or compiler directive-type statements. Like a reserved phrase that would the same for everybody, as a comment in whatever language you’re using. The comment ensures you are not changing actual code!

e.g. for Python

# CURSOR_DISABLE
some_python_stuff()
# CURSOR_ENABLE

Or something like that. Sometimes I’ve seen other tools call these ‘NOTOUCH’ as well, that would be a fine naming convention too.

e.g. for JavaScript

// CURSOR_NO_TOUCH
let name = "John Doe"; // String
let age = 30; // Number
let isEmployed = true; // Boolean
let city = null; // Null
// END_CURSOR_NO_TOUCH

There are lot of ways you could do this, but the point would be:

  1. Line-specific is needed, .cursorrules that ignore a complete file are too broad.
  2. Comments in whatever language the file is using, so they don’t affect your code.
  3. Comments also so they don’t affect any other downstream tools.

Thanks!