Dear all, I’m new to Cursor IDE. Could anyone here teach me how to open Cursor IDE from terminal such as the way to often do when using VSCode "open terminal → cd to folder → typing ‘code .’ ". Is there the same way for Cursor?

You need to run the Shell Command: Install 'cursor' command command from the Command Palette in Cursor.

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Hey! Not an official answer, but I managed to get it working by creating a function in .bashrc or .zshrc that points to the .AppImage (I create a function instead of an alias in order to use arguments). I did it as follows: On zsh: function cursor { /home/user/path_to_appimage/Cursor.AppIm…

This doesn’t work in some of the windows terminals however. For example, my default terminal is GitBash and the command is unrecognized there where vscode works fine.

Thanks! I was able to get this to work on Mac by adding this to ~/.zshrc function cursor { open -a "/Applications/Cursor.app" "$@" }

With your solution it kept sending messages such as the PID number and other annoying info when i’d close the app. With this slight alteration i don’t see any weird messages in the terminal: function cursor { (nohup /path/to/cursor.appimage "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1 &) } (I’m on Ubuntu)

On Ubuntu 24.04: option to add code or cursor command fails during setup, and there’s no shell command in command palette.

Hey there, I’ve implemented this workaround in Pop Os which is a distro based on Ubuntu. I’m using zsh so it would be like this: nano $HOME/.zshrc function cursor() { /home/<your_username>/<path_to_appimage> </dev/null &>/dev/null $1 & } source $HOME/.zshrc Usage: cursor <your_file_or_folde…

How to open cursor from terminal

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