Editor.padding.top breaks Tab suggest preview

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The VSCode setting editor.padding.top affects the inline preview used by Cursor’s Tab AI suggestion, causing it to be unreadable if set to a sufficiently large value.

Since this is a user-facing setting intended to configure editor windows, ideally it should be possible for users to change it without breaking a detail of Cursor’s UI.

Steps to Reproduce

“editor.padding.top”: 31,

Expected Behavior

This should not affect the padding applied to Cursor’s private UI elements such as the Tab suggestion preview inlay.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.44 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 20adc1003928b0f1b99305dbaf845656ff81f5d0
Date: 2025-12-24T21:41:47.598Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

Hey @dd7!

I can reproduce this. Thanks a lot for the detailed report. I’ve flagged this for the team.