Home or End does not work on Prompt text box in MacOS

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

when typing text in the ai prompt textbox, home and end buttons does not work. they worked before. it was easy and helpful to navigate to the end/start of the prompt.

Steps to Reproduce

type in the ai textbox, try to click home / end

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.8.11
VS Code Extension API: 1.105.1
Commit: e56ad3440df06d22ca7501e65fd518e905486ef0
Date: 2026-06-18T01:40:18.333Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Darwin arm64 25.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. We haven’t been able to reproduce it on our side yet, so I want to double-check a couple things:

  1. Are you pressing the physical Home and End keys on an external keyboard, or fn+Left and fn+Right on the built-in MacBook keyboard?
  2. Did this start exactly after updating to 3.8.11, or did it happen before too?

For now, here are some macOS navigation workarounds for the prompt box:

  • Cmd+Left / Cmd+Right move to the start/end of the line
  • Cmd+Up / Cmd+Down move to the start/end of the whole input
  • Option+Left / Option+Right move by words
  • On a laptop keyboard, fn+Left / fn+Right map to Home / End

Let me know about the questions above. If it turns out it broke specifically in 3.8.11, I’ll report it further.