Absolutely Horrendous Editing Experience! HELP!

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I’m new to Cursor but I’ve been using vscode for a long time. I’ve been accepting AI ghost suggestions forever, and honestly, I can’t live without them. But, I write/edit a lot of my own code and I find that Cursor is so aggressive at suggestions that my editing experience is horrendous. I tell Cursor to “F-OFF” every few minutes whenever I’m editing.

Can anyone can help me modify my settings to make this a more usable product? I want to control Cursor, not the other way around.

My biggest issue is the TABs… because suggestions are so fast and keep popping up, I cannot think for more than a few seconds without more suggestions popping up, some of which are OFF SCREEN AND I CAN’T EVEN SEE THEM! Then, when I try to TAB into my edit location, I end up accepting a suggestion or jumping to a new suggestion location. This happens so often that it’s almost impossible to edit my code while suggestions are turned on.

Have you re-mapped the “accept suggestion” to something else so that you can TAB without accepting? If so, what works for you?

I’m constantly hitting ESC to get out of suggestion mode. Honorable mention the suggestions that show up on the far right and sit on top of my right sidebar so that I can’t see my chats that I have open. UGH! Is this a bug? Seems like it is.

Suggestions are so aggressive they also pop up when I’m drag-selecting text with my mouse, preventing me from completing my drag-select operation. WTF!!!

Any help is appreciated because I do like some of the AI features in Cursor and I would like to use it.

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Anybody? This is an honest question… I’m really having a hard time editing code with Cursor.

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Hey, here are a few settings that can help tame Cursor Tab:

  • Rebind the accept key: Open Keyboard Shortcuts Cmd/Ctrl+K, Cmd/Ctrl+S, search for Accept Cursor Tab Suggestion, and bind it to a key other than Tab. That way Tab goes back to normal indentation.
  • Temporarily pause or disable by file type: In the bottom-right of the status bar, there’s a Cursor Tab toggle. You can “sleep” it temporarily or disable it for specific file extensions.
  • Partial accept: In Cursor Settings > Tab, enable Partial Accepts. This lets you accept suggestions word by word using Cmd+Right, instead of accepting everything at once.
  • Disable in comments: On the same settings page, turn off Suggestions While Commenting if you don’t want suggestions inside comment blocks.
  • Quick toggle: Bind Toggle Cursor Tab to a convenient shortcut like Cmd+; so you can quickly turn it on or off while editing. One user in this thread said this makes their workflow much smoother.

Docs for all Tab settings: Tab | Cursor Docs

There’s no suggestion delay setting yet, but there’s a tracking thread here. Add your vote, it helps with prioritization.

Let me know if this helped.

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Thanks Dean, did you change Accept Cursor Tab Suggestion and if so, what are you using? I can’t decide! :frowning: