Selected option is hard to read in light theme

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor CLI

Describe the Bug

Selected item in menus like resume and rewind is hard to read since it’s yellow.

Steps to Reproduce

Set light theme in terminal, open menu like /resume or /rewind

Expected Behavior

Selected option has enough contrast like in main menu when pressing /

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

CLI Version 2026.09.15-d2fe57e
Latest 2026.09.15-d2fe57e (up to date)
OS darwin (arm64)
Terminal ghostty

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey, thanks for the report and the recording, it helps.

On /rewind, confirmed. The selected item highlight and the menu title are tuned for dark terminals and don’t switch to a light variant yet, so on a light background it ends up as pale yellow and is hard to read. I’ve passed this to the team.

One quick check to close this out. Can you share a screenshot of the /resume menu in the same light theme? In light mode it should use a darker gold for the selected chat, and I want to see whether it looks the same as /rewind for you or if it’s just a bit dim.

There isn’t a user-side setting for these accent colors yet, so I can’t suggest a workaround. This doesn’t affect anything other than the readability of that menu. I’ll reply in the thread if there’s an update.

You’re right, resume looks good, no issue there. Another menu where it’s same yellow color is /copy, meant to mention this instead of resume.