Do not hijack code shortcut

[AMDphreak]

I do not know if this is due to an update, but Cursor has hijacked my ‘code’ command without permission!

"code" command overwrite after cursor updates

Thanks for reporting a bug you have found in Cursor! Please add the following info to help us diagnose your issue: Check the forum to ensure the issue hasn’t been reported already Provide a clear description of the bug When I first installed cursor, I told it to only add the “cursor” command but I unselected the “code” override. This worked on install, but every time I update cursor it adds the “code” command override. Explain how t…

Y’know what, why don’t you guys just DISABLE THIS FEATURE ENTIRELY.
Stick to using the ‘cursor’ command, or try ‘curs’ if you’re too lazy to type.

This guy on the GitHub reported this problem last year. It’s been around. Just stop it!

Do not hijack the .code terminal command please

Let this be a lesson! This is 3 different reports for the likely same problem. Nobody want this.

I seem to recall I had this problem once before, and the issue was that Cursor edits the PATH variable by prepending it, instead of appending to the end of the thing, so the code.cmd shortcut ALWAYS takes precedence, simply by existing in the path.

User variables:

System variables:

(Looks like you guys have bugged installer code that adds duplicate paths, as well)

[hankhsu1996]

It’s been very annoying. sometimes cursor update failed, so I have to reinstall cursor, and then I’ll need to go through this process again

[AMDphreak]

In my original post, I posited that the error is due to PATH variable. In the screenshots in the post, you could see that VScode is prioritized, within the user PATH. HOWEVER, as you can see in the below screenshot, where.exe shows cursor’s path is being prioritized. This is because the system PATH variable is prioritized over the user PATH variable. You guys need to stop adding cursor to SYSTEM path. You can see that I installed cursor to MY USER, not to ALL USERS.

“In Windows, the PATH variable is a combined result of system and user variables, with the system path searched first, then the user path, and the order of entries within each matters.”