Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Due to poor font size of the editor(agent)/scaling settings, I spent some time trying to get the text size I want with workarounds. Started to consider that the only way to use Cursor’s agent with a proper text size would be i…

Hey, this is a known issue. Chat in a separate window can be unstable right now because of multi-window rendering limits. Backwards typing and Ctrl+A not working are part of the same bug. Workaround: after you open chat in a new window, press Ctrl+Shift+P, type Developer: Reload Window, then press …

“window.zoomLevel” in settings.json seems to be a convenient workaround for me. I didn’t know it was a known issue, didn’t get the time or the chance to look through the forum’s bugs, as it was the only I encountered so far. Other than that, thank you for your quick reponse. Appreciate it.

Glad window.zoomLevel works for you! If the backwards typing issue comes back in any other scenario, feel free to report it here. We’re tracking this one.

Got same issue. Any plans on fixing this? [image] Inline assistant text written backwards Bug Reports I am experiencing the same issue. It appears to be related to losing focus on the Agents tab once it has been separated. To test I created a blank folder, an…

Hey, this is a known issue. Text input can switch to right-to-left when the chat is opened in a separate window. It’s related to multi-window rendering limits. Two workarounds: If you already opened it in a separate window, press Ctrl+Shift+P, type Developer: Reload Window, then press Enter. This…

[image] Dean Rie: Developer: Reload Window [image] Workaround 1 doesn’t seem to work (see screenshot - it removes the separate editor agent window and puts it back into the main code area). Workaround 2 - this is not a zooming issue at all (?) Like, I’m not using a separate window to make…

Hey, I see the screenshot. Yeah, running Developer: Reload Window in the separate window does move the chat back to the main window. That workaround won’t work for your setup. And you’re right, it’s not about zoom. Using chat in a separate window on a second monitor is a totally reasonable workflow…

No workaround (other than clicking in the textarea and holding the mouse down which is painful). If this bug can be resolved soon it would make this product a whole lot better as it’s a major pain having to copy and paste from a text editor each time. Thanks for adding the issue to the prioritizati…

As part of this issue: Pasting in text and then pressing backspace (DEL on mac), causes mouse cursor to move to the very start of the text input :see_no_evil_monkey:

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug The text gets mirrored when I type in an agent tab that’s in its own window. For example, ‘Hello’ becomes ‘olleH’. I’ve found a manual fix: if I type the first letter and then click right after it, it starts working correctly.…

Editor in a new window, zoomed in, typing from right to left

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Got same issue. Any plans on fixing this?

Inline assistant text written backwards

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Editor in a new window, zoomed in, typing from right to left

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