Terminal Output capture problems

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Describe the Bug

I’m constantly dealing with Cursor not detecting any output. I have to remind it to fallback to redirecting output to a file. It’s happened in the past, but it appears to be happening much more often than a week or so ago. I don’t think it’s GPT 5 related as I’m explicitly not using it.

When cursor says “I notice the terminal output isn’t showing” is there a more permanent fix for this? I think it might be related to my environment. I personally use Mac, iTerm and zsh. The cursor shell is bash with it’s own init file. (/bin/bash --init-file /Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/contrib/terminal/common/scripts/shellIntegration-bash.sh)

Steps to Reproduce

regular usage, can’t see terminal output when running commands (such as running test suite)

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.3 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: e50823e9ded15fddfd743c7122b4724130c25df0
Date: 2025-08-08T17:34:53.060Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Also, despite cursor being usable with this issue, it spins it’s wheels a lot trying all kinds of commands and options then finally gives up. When I see this happening I stop it, but sometimes this causes it to try to add all kinds of printf style statements in the code to debug the output issue.