Using Home key in CLI is weird

Bug Reports
1

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor CLI

Describe the Bug

Whenever I press the Home key or even use readline keymap (ctrl+a) the cursor of the prompt goes to the leftmost.
But right after I key-in the letter, it goes back to the rightmost.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Run cursor-agent
  2. after typing the word: apple, press home key (or ctrl+a)
  3. try to type some word:banana in the leftmost position
  4. it goes back to the rightmost position after the first letter
  5. final prompt would be bappleanana

Expected Behavior

prompt would be bananaapple

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

(CLI) 2025.11.06-8fe8a63

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

2

Hey, thanks for the report. I can’t reproduce the issue on my side. Could you share:

  • Which terminal app are you using? (Terminal Cursor, Terminal.app, iTerm2, Warp, etc.)
  • Which shell are you using?
  • Does it happen in a different terminal app as well?

This will help narrow down the cause.

3

  • Which terminal app are you using?

    • I’ve tested kitty, alacritty. Same issue.

  • Which shell are you using?

    • I use zsh but also tested with bash –norc. Same issue.

  • Does it happen in a different terminal app as well?

    • yes. Even in OS X built-in terminal
4

Thanks for the extra info. This is a known bug in CLI version 2025.11.06-8fe8a63 that affects cursor positioning.

Multiple users are seeing the same issue across different terminals and platforms.

The engineering team is already looking into this. Unfortunately, there is no workaround for the cursor positioning issue at the moment.

I’ll add your report to the existing issue to help prioritize a fix.

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5

Thanks a lot. I think it is one of crucial feature that affects UX. Hope it will be resolved soon.