Hi, I’ve been having a hard time adjusting to v3 and before there was a button somewhere where I could very easily switch back to v2. But there was some update today that did a catastrophic delete of my untracked files so luckily I was able to use the ai to recover most of them but it had to re-implement many other files that were untracked and completely lost.
So I’ve been trying to use the more branch first style that v3 is trying to force us, but after like an hour or two I’m just running into issues and significant friction with the workflow and I want to switch back to v2 for the time being where it was way cleaner and I could move much faster and I could see my changes and the untracked files very cleanly in the sidebar. I could switch between the files and edit them immediately but now I don’t see that button anywhere so does that mean that cursor is now permanently transitioned to v3 or should it still allow users to use v2?
I’m just trying to figure out why I don’t see it anymore because that breaks the workflow for me and I had to reopen VSCode and kind of go back to that after this, just because it’s been such a shock to my existing workflow. These changes in v3 are not very compatible with the old way of how I used to work where I just make changes in untracked files and then slowly commit them as I review them and ask the AI to fix things and update the untracked files. Just my own way of reviewing files.
Hi, thanks for the post! If you’re in Agents View, you can go back to the regular IDE Editor view by going to File → Open Editor View. You are not forced to use the Agents View, you can freely use the traditional IDE editor. And you don’t need to change your software version to be able to do so. The IDE view will continue to be supported and developed in future Cursor versions.
From a coder’s perspective, the older version is way better. Im not saying the new version is bad, but it feels very flashy and tries really hard to keep the user away from viewing or working with code. I mean I do code myself as well. I spent a good 5 minutes just figuring out how to open the terminal without using the shortcut keys "control + ` ". Agent view I think is good for people who don’t know how to code themselves and just want to vibe code. I would have just cancelled my subscription from cursor, if there wasnt a way to switch back to v2. Thanks Kevin.
We’re building Agents view to provide the best possible experience to devs and in particular support where we think agentic coding is heading (as we have more capable agents that run for longer, etc.)
So the agents view is built in part to be forward looking and it is not yet at full feature parity to the IDE as this point.
You are absolutely welcome to continue using the IDE view and we will continue to develop and support it.
Thank you, kind of i need to toggle from codex to cursor just because of files access and terminal easy old vs code feel. please don’t remove this in future as well.