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So here, I opened up Cursor
and I'm in editor

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mode. Up here, in the top left corner,
you can switch between Agents

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and editor mode.
You also might have been asked

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opened Cursor which mode you wanna use,
and you can always switch between these

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two modes in this top left corner. Now,
I'll get back to Agents

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mode in the next section. For now,
I'll stick to editor mode, which

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gives you a typical code editor where your
code files will live

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here on the left,
and you can view the code here.

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And then you could always open an
integrated agent by pressing command or

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control I. But again,
I'll get back to Agents in the next

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So for now,
we'll stick to this editor mode.

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And in there, I'll create a new file,
demo.py,

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just to show some of Cursor's features.

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Now one thing you can immediately see
if you open Cursor and

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if you have used Visual Studio Code
before, is that it looks and

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feels a lot like Visual Studio Code
because, as mentioned, it's based on that.

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It's a copy of that.
So you have the same general

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UI.
Many of the options of Visual Studio Code

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You can also install
and use the same extensions.

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That all hasn't changed. But there are

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also, if you go to the settings,
some Cursor-specific

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settings, which of course,
is Cursor exclusive, as you might have

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guessed. And in there, you can do various

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things which are worth noting.
Most importantly,

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these settings also change all the time.

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So by the time you're viewing them, uh,
chances are there are some new

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options or some options have been removed.

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But besides general settings,
which allow you to tweak keyboard

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general editor settings or your layout,

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there also are settings about AI models
that

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can be used, the chat features that can be

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used, and the tab completion feature
that can be used.

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And then we also have advanced settings
for background agents, tools and

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MCP, rules and memories, and so on,
and we'll get back to that

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later.
At least at the point of time where I'm

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beta features which do just what their
name implies.

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Here, you can enable
or disable certain experimental

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beta features which
are not necessarily stable yet but

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already try out. Now,
before we dive into the chat or

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tab completion settings and,
most importantly, their features in the

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IDE itself,
there is one specific feature I wanna

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under General. There,
depending on your plan, you

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will have that privacy area.
At least it's here at the point of time

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recording this. And here,
you can choose your privacy mode.

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You can either choose to share your data,
to share

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your code, to improve Cursor for everyone,
as it says

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here, or you use the privacy mode
which was advertised on their

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website, which means your code,
your data is not used

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for training.
And that's the option I'm using here.

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That's the option you might wanna use
here.

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That is therefore how you can control
whether your code and content

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is used for further training or not.

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And that's it for the settings for now.

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We'll revisit them later, of course.