On my agent’s words :
“I’d love an option to visually highlight my own messages in chat and agent threads. In longer threads, user messages blend in and it slows down scanning.
Requested behavior:
Add a setting to customize user-message appearance (background tint, border, or accent bar)
Keep assistant/system messages visually distinct (old school chat style setting?)
Respect current theme (light/dark) and accessibility contrast
Optional per-thread toggle would be great
Why this matters:
Faster backtracking in long debugging sessions
Clearer ownership of prompts vs responses
Better thread readability overall
This would be a big UX upgrade for power users. Thanks!”
yes, and the font could be changed in weight or style. Some more options for reply style in general please. Accesability with larger typefaces is a thing but anything would help UX.
When chatting with Cursor Agent, it can be hard to visually find my own messages in a long conversation.
It would be helpful if user messages could have a distinct visual style, such as a different background color, border, or stronger contrast from assistant messages.
Ideally this should respect the current theme and be configurable.
this is an essential feature to use my questions as a separator between topics.
This will make it easy for me to jump through the jungle of text cursor agent generate for each simple ask.
for now I add a rule to the agent to prefix and postfix each answer with two distinctive lines such as:
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ANSWER START ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ END ANSWER
I often have long chat threads going with cursor, and it can be difficult to see where I submitted an updated prompt or chat and where cursor replied if I’m scrolling through a long chat conversation. It would be extremely helpful if my chats had a colored background. Perhaps a yellow tint similar to the build buttons in plan mode. I would just love some way to be able to more easily identify my input messages when scrolling through a chat history.
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