Mentioning symbol with "#" display bug

Bug Reports
1

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Whenever I try to include a symbol, such as #myCustomFunction, after selecting it, the cursor chat doesn’t show it in the message text.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Write #myFunction in chat message
  2. Press Enter
  3. Chat remains empty, instead of having #myFunction in the text of the message (but file is attached)

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.7.44
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 9d178a4■■■89981b62546448bb32920a8219a5d0
Date: 2025-10-10T15:43:37.500Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.0.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

2

Press escape when the file dropdown appears while typing.

3

then it will not apply symbol to the chat context

4

I dont think you can add a functions name to the context, only files (with optional line numbers). You can try selecting the method body in code, copy, and pasting it into the chat, or select the method body and press Ctrl+K (or MacOS equivalent). This will add the lines of code and file to the context. Then you can refer to it in the request.

5

i literally was able to do that until recent update. And I’m still is. It’s just visual representation of it is bugged

6

Really, that is weird. Maybe try going back to a version and see if it works there. I have never noticed this feature and would be surprised it exists because it would have to have all these methods indexed or something.

7

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