I am just wondering how the chat history for ‘Composer Chats’ is handled:
Are the chats somehow ‘linked’ to the file that was open when the Composer chat was initiated? Or are they saved in a general ‘Previous Composer Chats’ area? Or are they not saved at all?
Thank You.
PS - In the Composer window, what do the ‘Save’ and ‘Save All’ buttons do?
I thought perhaps they would save the chat, but when I click ‘Save All’, then close the Composer window, and open it again, the previous chat is not there.
PPS - In the Composer window, what does the ‘Reset Position’ button do?
FWIW, I would prefer Option A. I don’t think Composer and Chat should be a separate interface. I think they should both have the same basic interface, and, if anything, the user should just be able to choose whether they prefer a sidebar or a floating chat. I always prefer a sidebar, for example.
The best would be for composer to be completely integrated into the existing chat, because I like to discuss a solution in the chat before implementing, and after we decide on the perfect solution, I could use composer to implement it instead of clicking apply on several files in the chat.
In order to try and stop this behaviour, I restarted Cursor hoping that I would be able to go back into the ‘Composer History’, load the most recent Composer chat, and ask it to regenerate the code again
In the ‘Composer History’ area, I could not see any chats
So it looks like, unfortunately, it didn’t save the most recent Composer Chat in the Composer History area.
It is significant (for me) because some of my prompts have lots of detailed information communicated in a specific way and it takes quite a long time to write them (the process actually helps me identify what my actual problem is, much like the process of writing a good stackoverflow question does).
I’m not sure I understand the history functionality 100% but sometimes I find out the history will get saved for the same set of files to be processed. Is this is this a feature or a bug because I would naïvely think that all histories of the other composer moves will be saved.
in 0.39 I worked on a new file with composer, accepted it, and then I reset composer and it deleted the file! was not expecting that and had not commited it yet so I lost it…
also often I can’t paste code or text into composer, restarting cursor fixes it temporarily
I hit “Ctrl + R” by accident while in the composer window and the entire history disappeared. Now composer lost all that context and I don’t see any way to recover it. This was going well, was making something from scratch to test out the IDE and was probably 3 hours into making the app and now it’s lost, too bad.
It feels like I was pair programming with someone since yesterday and this person just got hit by a bus, now they sent me a new dev who doesn’t understand anything about the project. Even worse though is that the person was doing 95% of the programming so I don’t even understand the project.
Edit: Just happened again, this time just lost 30 minutes or so of progress. The shorcut is actually “Ctrl + Shift + Backspace”
Just to update this, the closest thing to recovering the quality of the context I had when I started the development of the app from scratch with composer was using the “Create New… New Project” option in composer and then adding all the files from the project using the + sign on the right side of the composer window. Not as good as when I was building the project with composer from scratch but better.
Composer is incredible. Absolutely a game changer.
For me, this is where the longer, deeper, more complex changes/thoughts/refactoring strategies happen.
Given this, it feels like a *must to
retain history. If I have a long chat about a difficult thing, I’m losing critical information. @gmurad you said it, I’ve literally spent 1-2 hours in one conversation on why it proposed and implemented a giant change, I absolutely need to save this conversation somewhere. This app cannot lose all of that thought, work, etc
have an export chat ability. raw HTML. Md. JSON. plain text. PDF. something. CursorLens is cool, but I don’t tihnk I can use it bc I’m paying for Cursor’s built in token processing, not my own API key
a functioning and reliable text form that can cut/copy/paste, where I can page up and down, Home and End, accepts a click mouse to move cursor.
Why? Because it’s way too easy to press Enter to submit, instead of Shift Enter to give me a new line. So, now I use Notes to prevent this accidental oh shit there go my tokens bc I @ the Codebase. *But then I can’t paste it all back in! So I have to copy paste, paragraph by paragraph. Double whammy and a lose lose for flow
Going one step further- the split between Chat and Composer is puzzling. It feels like it should be one thing, one experience, that scales up and down in capability based on what I need to do at any moment:
Oh I need to change this one line, great, Apple K
Hmm how would I do this, side panel, short chat
Oh crap I gotta refactor this huge part of my codebase, that I’m investing time and tokens… ok let me put this whole thing on my second screen, so it can stay up and be with me while I carefully work through this problem, and see exactly what the 10 files Cursor is recommending I do, without moving, resizing, etc.
This sounds like a big challenge, maybe it’s some companion application, or a chrome Ex that can listen to what happens in Cursor, I dunno… but that’s the holy grail for work flow
Please take this as positive feedback. This is all unbelievable stuff.
It feels like Ive been given a Ferrari and I need to figure out how to drive straight without skidding out and crashing
