When Cursor tries to edit a file from the Chat it blocks the whole editor

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

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When you try to code and give a prompt to the chat and it tries to edit the file on th editing it freezes the whole editor and the editor just doesnt respond and you must force quit it. And it completly blocks coding. This is my experience on Macbook Apple Sillicon.

Steps to Reproduce

Open an app on the latest version of Cursor on Apple Silicon and give a prompt to the chat and when it tries to edit a file it completely will freeze up.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Verson 2.0.11 is the current one

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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I have the same issue since the last update. This is an extreme problem, as it completely blocks agent based development. Please attend to this immediately !

Apple Silicon (M2 Macbook air AND same behavior on M4Max)

Cursor Version: 1.7.54

VSCode Version: 1.99.3

Commit: 5c17eb2968a37f66bc6662f48d6356a100b67be0

Date: 2025-10-21T19:07:38.476Z (4 days ago)

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known bug and it’s already been escalated to the engineering team.

Workaround: In your settings.json, change "workbench.editor.showTabs": "single" to ”multiple" or ”none", or remove that line.

This should stop the freezing right away. Full details and discussion:

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