Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug In-document (fragment) links in markdown preview don’t work — e.g. table-of-contents links like [Section](#section) in a README. Clicking them either shows “The file is not displayed in the text editor because it is a director…

Hey, thanks for the detailed report. This is a known bug. Fragment links (#section) in the Markdown preview are handled incorrectly. Instead of scrolling to the right heading, the editor tries to open them as files. Another user reported the same thing on macOS: Links of md files are not working on…

Markdown preview in-document links still broken in 2.6.18 (TOC / fragment links)

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Topic		Replies	Views
Markdown preview in Cursor does not resolve internal TOC links (#anchor) correctly Bug Reports	0	83	April 15, 2026
Links of md files are not working on preview mode Bug Reports	10	336	May 14, 2026
Markdown preview: local file links don’t work? Bug Reports	1	235	March 23, 2026
Markdown preview code link with line numbers not working Bug Reports	4	79	July 29, 2026
Markdown preview: inline links with ([#NNNN](url)) render as raw Bug Reports	4	90	May 16, 2026

Markdown preview in-document links still broken in 2.6.18 (TOC / fragment links)

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