What is Cursor and what can it do?

Have you always wanted to have someone who perfectly completes your (programming) sentences for you? Get to know Cursor.

What is Cursor? Cursor is an IDE, or code writing program, that has AI. It finishes the code you've written, does the refactoring for you, helps you find bugs, or creates APIs or components. It's such a tireless helper.

If you haven't used Cursor yet but would like to get started, we've prepared an overview of the basic and advanced features it offers. You don't have to use all of them, of course, but with just a few features you can program much faster and more efficiently.

💡If you are currently using VS Code, switching to Cursor would be almost no change. In fact, Cursor is built on VS Code and you can even have all extensions and settings transferred from VS Code to Cursor after installation. However, you need to adapt to Cursor gradually, it can help speed up development but on the other hand the agent can change your code beyond recognition through a bad prompt or misunderstanding of the project context.

Basic instructions

Tab

To accept the draft code. Cursor keeps track of what you are creating and tries to suggest other items. if you import a function into a file, for example. it tries to look for lines where the code can be used.

Chat (command+L)

Here you can talk to Cursore about your files. You can add one, more or even a whole folder. So if the changes affect multiple files, Cursor will have better context and can advise you better.

You have a choice of 3 chat modes. Agent, Ask a Manual.

• Agent = changes the code according to the prompt and saves the changes.
• Ask = you can ask questions about your code, but it won't make changes.
• Manual = suggests changes, but you decide which ones you want to implement.

Edit by (command+K)