Prompt editing bugs

Bug Reports
1

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor CLI

Describe the Bug

  • Cursor jumps to the end of the line after any single character edit inside the line
  • Ctrl+Left/Right jumps to the start/end of a line instead of navigating by words
  • No Shift+Enter or any other way to insert new line
  • Image always being pasted as an image tag even when pasted by a path only (no way to reference a plain path for an image file)
  • Delete key acts as Backspace

As a general feedback. Overall UI and UX of cursor CLI are far from comfortable yet.

Steps to Reproduce

See the description

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

❯ cursor-agent --version
2025.11.06-8fe8a63

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

2

Hey, thanks for the report about input issues in the CLI.

Please share details so we can reproduce:

  • Which Linux distribution are you using?
  • Which terminal?
  • Does it happen across different terminals?

I’ll pass this to the engineering team - these are UI/UX issues that need attention. The CLI is still relatively new, so your feedback on basic editing scenarios is very helpful.

Temporary workaround: for multi-line input, try the Vim-like way with Ctrl + J.

3

I am also seeing the same issue with the cursor jumping to the end of the line whenever trying to insert characters inside any lines.

Same version: 2025.11.06-8fe8a63

The terminal: iterm, or regular macos terminal. Both exhibit the same behaviour.

4

I’m using Fedora 43. The same behavior is consistent across ptyxis, vscode integrated terminal, and when working over ssh.

Huge thanks for Ctrl+J key combination! It works!
It would be nice to be able to see all the keyboard shortcuts available. Like Ctrl+/ that I’ve just found for switching models:)

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5

I’m running into the same issue on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS. I’m using windows terminal as my terminal.

And another annoyance is that I try to just copy the prompt into an editor like notepad and it picks up the | in the copy. So, can’t even work with it that way.

That being said, I think a vim mode would be super cool, where it allows you to just expand the prompt thing into something like vim like you can do for git commits.

6

Yes, copying a prompt is clunky.

Opening a current prompt in an external editor would be actually neat. :+1:

7

Not the best solution, but a workaround for this annoyance I use is, I just type: copy that into my clipboard please.

8

The latest update fixes a lot of issues for me. Run cursor-agent upgradeto upgrade to the latest version.