Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Cursor rg tool automatically triggers with --follow on symlinks despite search.followSymlinks false on remote settings AND Ignore Symlinks in Cursor Ignore Search set to true, nonetheless cursor trys to run rg with --follow …

Disabling follow symlinks is not respected

Andy_Liu (Andy Liu) March 2, 2026, 9:12pm 4

has no current solution. What is the status update? What is the workaround?

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