The Down button removes the focus from the chat window

Bug Reports
1

Describe the Bug

When you type text in the chat window and press the Up button, the cursor moves to the beginning of the line. If you press Down, the cursor jumps to the Past Chats section.

Steps to Reproduce

  • Open a new chat tab
  • Focus on the input field
  • Press the Down button

Expected Behavior

I expect the cursor to move to the end of the line.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.7.52 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 9675251a06b1314d50ff34b0cbe5109b78f848c0
Date: 2025-10-17T01:41:03.967Z (2 days ago)
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.0.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

2

Hey, thanks for the report. I can’t repro this. Could you please share the prompt you entered in the chat field, or record a short video of the behavior?

3

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4

Thanks for the video. This is expected behavior: the Down arrow moves focus to past chats. If your prompt has more than one line, the Down arrow moves the cursor to the next line instead of to past chats.

5

Are you sure? If it’s not a new chat and previous chats are not visible, then everything is working as it should. Pressing down takes you to the end of the line. Can this behavior be configured somewhere?