Title: macOS Option+5/Option+6 (German layout) does not produce [ ] in Cursor Agent chat input

Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Environment:
macOS 26.0.1 (Darwin arm64 25.0.0), MacBook Pro M3 Ultra
Cursor 2.0.40, VSCode 1.99.3
Commit: a9b73428ca6aeb2d24623da2841a271543735560
Date: 2025-10-30T04:12:35.564Z
Electron: 34.5.8, Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1, V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
Keyboard layout: German; 2 Bluetooth keyboards affected
Steps:

  1. Focus Agent chat input
  2. Option+5 → expected “[”
  3. Option+6 → expected “]”
    Expected: “[” and “]” appear like in other apps/editors.
    Actual: No characters inserted (only in Agent chat input). Works everywhere else including Cursor editor.

Steps to Reproduce

Try to enter a “[” or “]” by pressing option+5 / option+6

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.40
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a9b73428ca6aeb2d24623da2841a271543735560
Date: 2025-10-30T04:12:35.564Z
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

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Auto

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

2

Hey Michael, thanks for the report! This is a known issue with Cursor 2.0’s new keybindings conflicting with international keyboard layouts.

Related discussions:

Workaround (from the Swedish keyboard thread): The issue is caused by composer.selectSubComposerTab5 and composer.selectSubComposerTab6 using Alt+5 and Alt+6. You can rebind these in your keyboard shortcuts:

  1. Open Keyboard Shortcuts (Cmd+K Cmd+S)
  2. Search for “composer.selectSubComposerTab5” and “composer.selectSubComposerTab6”
  3. Change them to different keys like cmd+alt+5 and cmd+alt+6

The team is working on a fix. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Cursor 2.0 keybindings conflicts with swedish and other international keyboard layouts