Smooth Scrolling

[A_J3 (A J)]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Enabling smooth scroll in the editor or terminal doesn’t change behavior. In other vscode forks like antigravity and even vscode itself, scrolling isn’t broken into steps. I have reinstalled cursor with default settings and extensions with just smooth scrolling enabled and still nothing.

To me, smooth scroll greatly improves the UX when using an editor.

Steps to Reproduce

To reproduce:

Fresh install of cursor
Enable smooth scrolling

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.36 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 55c9bc11e99cedd1fb93fbb7996abf779c583150
Date: 2025-12-18T06:25:21.733Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report.

Let’s try to diagnose the issue:

1. Open settings.json (CTRL+Shift+P > Preferences: Open User Settings JSON) and check that these settings are set:

"editor.smoothScrolling": true,
"terminal.integrated.smoothScrolling": true

2. Also try enabling cursor animation:

"editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation": "on"

3. Open the Developer Tools console (Help > Toggle Developer Tools) and check if there are any errors when you enable smooth scrolling.

[A_J3 (A J)]

I figured it out. Smooth scrolling breaks when zooming in to the editor with Ctrl + or Ctrl -