Terminal Display Constraints for AI Assistant

Bug Reports
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Additional Issue: Terminal Display Constraints for AI Assistant

Description:
The AI assistant’s terminal has different display constraints than the user’s terminal, causing issues with interactive programs like vim. While the user can successfully use vim in their terminal, the AI assistant’s terminal shows “E36: Not enough room” error.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open a terminal in Cursor
  2. User can successfully run vim and other interactive programs
  3. AI assistant attempts to run the same commands
  4. AI assistant receives display constraint errors

Expected Behavior:
AI assistant’s terminal should have the same display capabilities as the user’s terminal

Actual Behavior:
AI assistant’s terminal has limited display capabilities, preventing proper interaction with programs like vim

Impact:
This limitation affects the AI assistant’s ability to help with interactive terminal-based tasks and debugging.

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Hi @rickcrites, and welcome to Cursor Forum.

Thank you for the detailed bug report, from the details I would assume this is a Feature Request since Agent does not have any interactive capability at all.

As it just passes a command to be executed in terminal it is unable to interact with it in any way.