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I asked Cursor to help me add correct indentation to a file and while generating it, it ended up throwing an error. While it worked on other files yesterday, it's not working today. Anyone know any good resources how to use Cursor?

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Jonathan Bossenger

@jonathanbossenger.com

25 Apr 2025

What was the error? I had a weird "can't connect to the MCP server" error in my live stream today, which I put down to an internet/server access related issue.

Jonathan Bossenger

@jonathanbossenger.com

25 Apr 2025

That's the one downside of all these AI coding IDEs/IDE extensions: they need to be able to access their servers, which I guess is also prone to outages, just like every other live service.

Jessica Lyschik

@jessicalyschik.com

25 Apr 2025

"Error calling tool 'edit_file'." I was able to reproduce it a second time and I assume there was just too much data in the file, so Cursor was unable to handle it properly. I had a lot of issues and it was again a rather frustrating experience.

Jonathan Bossenger

@jonathanbossenger.com

25 Apr 2025

I guess it is possbile the file was too large, I'm not sure what the largest file is I've ever had to work on.

Jessica Lyschik

@jessicalyschik.com

25 Apr 2025

In the end I managed to get it halfway done in chunks but for the last two parts, it just would always remove the code so I went and did it manually. I was only asking for correct indentation and nothing else. I was working on a longer pattern that I wanted to have better readable.

Jonathan Bossenger

@jonathanbossenger.com

25 Apr 2025

Mine was "Tool mcp__get_pull_request not found. Try enabling the MCP server or switching to Agent mode." I was in agent mode, and MCP servers were enabled, so it might be a bug in the current version.

Troy Chaplin

@troychaplin.bsky.social

25 Apr 2025

I've seen some good stuff from @elliottrichmond.co.uk, @jonathanbossenger.com and @nickdiego.com more recently, maybe they can point you to something more specific. I also need to learn more about leveraging Cursor, specifically around base rules that I want the AI to follow, such as WPCS formatting