> Hi Cursor Team, > > In the recent update, the behavior of the Explorer pane seems to have changed. When I focus on the explorer and start typing, it automatically enters a “filter” mode (hiding files that don’t match) instead of the previous “highlight/navigation” mode (just jumping to the file …

Hey all - apologies for the issues here. We’ve just reverted this; it was requested by some users but caused more frustration than we expected with vim keybinding interference.

I’m actually thinking about quitting cursor altogether, more problems now than ever. Changing keybindings as they wish, freezing entirely on trying to confirm changes and etc even on m4 max.

Cursor team, please, provide the possibility to disable this fuzzy search in explorer pane. as of now, it’s impossible to use j,k to navigate (vim extension)

The recent UI/UX of Cursor is truly terrible. :-1: They rushed the release too much and didn’t consider the development experience at all. It used to be better, but today I faced this problem and am considering quitting Cursor soon.

Please focus on building AI features; you idiots should stop constantly modifying VS Code and imposing your obnoxious habits on users.

Yesterday I ran into the same issue. I use the Vim extension and navigate with J, K, H, and L. Since then I’ve been looking for an alternative; I’ve already spent several hours with no luck. I’m considering reverting the update. I’ll wait until next week, and if they don’t fix it, I’ll roll back the…

Ran into same issue today… Very disruptive for anybody using vim keybindings and any NERDTree-esque shortcuts to navigate around the explorer. Please please bring back an option to disable this :folded_hands: Little papercuts are starting to add up to make me think about going back to VSCode… Foun…

The only way I create new files / create new folders / duplicate files is by my custom “a”, “shift+a” and “d” shortcuts here. VSCode has a really good way of letting you define such shortcuts, e.g. when: "explorerViewletVisible && filesExplorerFocus && !inputFocus" I truely don’t understand how a…

The root cause is Cursor not respecting editor.find.autoFindInSelection anymore Insanely annying to debug and see we can’t do ■■■■ about it AAAaaaaa

Same problem here. I downgraded to 2.1.46 and my shortcuts are working again. This is indeed a regression bug.

Option to disable "Type to Search" / Filter in Explorer pane (Revert to simple highlight)

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Option to disable "Type to Search" / Filter in Explorer pane (Revert to simple highlight)

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