Please Let Me Paste Plain Text

Bug Reports
1

If I ‘cut’ text from a file, I should be able to paste that text into the chat.

Cursor refuses to allow this.

”Ctrl + Shift + V” should allow this.

A right click menu option should allow this.

Cursor does not allow this.

When I paste, what I get instead is a reference to the file that I cut it out of. The problem - it doesn’t exist anymore in that file!

And even it did - I want to paste the text in the chat! I don’t want a reference to the file, I want the text…. I get that referencing the file is nice when you copy and paste, but give me a plain text option!

I’ve tried pasting the text into notepad and repasting, no luck…. Same with vs code/one note.

Only option I’ve found is to paste into my browser - which must strip whatever meta data is embedded in the text…. Looks like notepad++ also works.

2

hi @wadsworj and thank you for your request.

Does CTRL SHIFT V not work for you? Cursor allows pasting content with this shortcut.

Please let me know which version of Cursor you are using.

Help > About > Copy full version details

3

As stated above, Ctrl Shift V didn’t work in the case I’m describing above.

I have seen it work from time to time - but not consistently.

Version: 1.3.9 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 54c27320fab08c9f5dd5873f07fca101f7a3e070
Date: 2025-08-01T20:19:30.453Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

4

Here is a portion of text from a markdown file that won’t paste:

### Enterprise Agreement Data Access

- Create `IEnterpriseAgreementRepository`

- Implement `GetEnterpriseAgreementsWithRolloutDataAsync`

I added it in a new file ‘test.md’ and was able to get the issue.