Why doesn't the "Add to Chat" button appear anymore?

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I have an operation as follows:

  1. Open the chat window.
  2. Select a piece of code by dragging with the mouse.

Expected situation:
The Add to Chat button appears in the floating window.

Actual situation:
What appears in the floating window is the “Chat” button. (It’s very strange. when I used it yesterday, the “Add to Chat” button still appeared.)

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You are forced to open a new chat instead of continuing to add content to an existing lengthy chat.

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You might have accidentally deleted or reassigned this shortcut earlier. To fix the issue, open the command palette and type Keyboard Shortcuts. In the search field, enter cmd + L and check what it’s currently assigned to. You can also open your custom shortcut settings file and check it there.

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Created an account to say same :confused: the feature disappeared after the latest update. hope its just a bug, i used that feature a lot. in the meantime you can use ctl + shift + L to accomplish this

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do you want to add multiple parts of the code to the same chat?

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Me too!!!

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I mean, the hover button was supposed to be Add to Chat, but now it’s showing Chat.

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I tried, but it didn’t work.
When Chat window is already open in the right sidebar.
After selecting a piece of code, the button still shows Chat instead of Add to Chat.
I think this problem is only available in the latest cursor version.

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I don’t know if the cursor team set it up like this on purpose, or if it’s really a bug.

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What version of Cursor are you on? The minor version number would be helpful here - 0.43.x?

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I have the same issue (as of yesterday evening):

  1. “Add to Chat” is gone when I highlight code
  2. No “Ask” button anymore beside “Copy” and “Apply” when looked at code suggestions
  3. Can’t click on filename to open code suggestion file anymore

These are pretty debilitating issues. Hoping the Cursor team is looking at them as high priority because these bugs/changes/whatever they are really impact productivity. :frowning:

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Also no “Add to Composer” button from Terminal. :frowning: I used this all the time as my primary unit test test-fix loop method.

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We’ll bring it back.

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Cursor updated today and broke this for me, too.
This has blocked/significantly hurt my usual workflow.

  • Cannot “Add to chat” which I do often (multiple times per day) to add iteratively context to chat.
  • Tried a workaround: Copying from an open file into chat does not appear to inject a code reference and instead is plaintext. I thought this worked before, however, may also be broken now.

Note: “Chat” opening new chat does not help. If I want to create a new, empty chat I already know how to simply click + for new chat. This was not a problem to solve.

Recommendation: If the objective is to encourage users to reduce long running chats and encourage creating new chats (I definitely see less experience LLM prompters making this mistake) then please do not break the power-user UX and instead add an informative, dismissible message by the chat input informing users it is better to create new chats for focused discussions versus continuing the same chat. Can conditionally appear after X messages/length of chat.

Please and thank you for fixing/reverting soon!

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meet the same problem.You can select the code and use the shortcut “ctrl + shift + L” to insert selection to chat.Try this.

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Same issue here. Only “Chat” button, no more “Add to Chat”.