Describe the Bug For some time now Cursor tries to execute a command named “q” on the terminal, sometimes paired with ^C at seemingly random places. My shell is fish and the terminal profile is set to fish. Steps to Reproduce The most recent time I saw it, I was using chat to instruct Cursor (with …

Terminal command tries to execute an unknown command named "q" in the terminal

ccalvarez (Carolina Cordero) July 15, 2025, 2:23pm 2

This is related to this issue posted yesterday:

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