Search opens in explorer on any key

Support Bug Reports
1

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Pressing any key triggers the search input, even when a keybinding is explicitly assigned to another command.

{
“key”: “a”,
“command”: “explorer.newFile”,
“when”: “filesExplorerFocus && !inputFocus”
},
{
“key”: “shift+a”,
“command”: “explorer.newFolder”,
“when”: “filesExplorerFocus && !inputFocus”
}

Despite these bindings, any key press still opens the search bar, making it impossible to use custom Explorer shortcuts. It seems like the built-in “search on type” handler is overriding all keybindings, even with correct when conditions.

Steps to Reproduce

Add the keybindings above.

Focus the file explorer.

Press A, Shift+A, or even other random keys.

Instead of creating a file/folder, Cursor opens the global search input.

Expected Behavior

When the Explorer has focus and inputFocus is false, my custom keybindings should work

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.9
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: a86689c93e9fb11addfbefd29a6ec7c0a59175e0
Date: 2025-12-10T16:51:25.713Z (3 hrs ago)
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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2

Same issue

Version: 2.2.14 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 1685afce45886aa5579025ac7e077fc3d4369c50
Date: 2025-12-11T01:12:35.790Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

3

Same here!
Please fix it!!!

4

Hey, thanks for the report. I can repro it. I’ll pass it to the team.

6

Screenshot 2025-12-11 at 11.11.47 AM
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Hello! How can I turn off this “search/filter”?

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7

Exactly the same problem. All my shortcuts stopped working in the file explorer after updating.

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8

Who thought it was a good idea? FIX IT

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9

I also have this issue. This really interrupts my work process. :frowning:
Version: 2.2.14
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 1685afce45886aa5579025ac7e077fc3d4369c50
Date: 2025-12-11T01:12:35.790Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

10

Same Issue. I was used to use k and j to navigate now that thing pops up

1 Like
11

Same issue here

Version: 2.2.14 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 1685afce45886aa5579025ac7e077fc3d4369c50
Date: 2025-12-11T01:12:35.790Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

12

Same!

13

Some more discussion in this duplicate here: Option to disable "Type to Search" / Filter in Explorer pane (Revert to simple highlight)

This broke a lot of workflows for users of vim keybindings

For anyone else, found that I could downgrade to version 2.1 here: Download · Cursor

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Atom Keymap plugin has the same issue, Please fix it.