Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?
Cursor IDE
Describe the Bug
This setting open “Rich Text” is not accurate. it is a markdown preview mode, not a rich text editor. I changed mine to “Markdown”, thinking “of course I want to edit as markdown and not ‘regular’ text”, but it just changed the initial view of plans when they appear.
This setting option should be renamed to
Steps to Reproduce
See the settings
Expected Behavior
I recommend changing the setting from “Rich Text” to “Preview” as this is the terminology you use in the dropdown in the plan pane.
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.7.46 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: b9e5948c1ad20443a5cecba6b84a3c9b99d62580
Date: 2025-10-14T01:21:46.830Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0
Does this stop you from using Cursor
No - Cursor works, but with this issue