AI Chat Sentence Autocomplete (Like Zed's "Ghost Text")

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Hello all,

I just saw Zed’s AI chat with real-time sentence completion and think this would be amazing for Cursor as well. You could Tab to accept it mid-sentence, or Cmd+Z to get back to your original thought.

This will help users phrase complex requests without breaking their flow and teach effective prompting skills.

The suggestions could use current file context, cursorrules and project details to stay relevant and the ghost-text styling Zed uses feels lightweight enough to avoid being distracting. Definitely this task doesn’t require a powerful AI model, cursor-fast or cursor-small model should handle it.

This feels like the next logical step in making AI interactions more fluid. What do you think?

Here is a video that I prepared to see it in action.

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Thanks for considering!
Cheers,

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Thanks for the detailed suggestion! While we don’t have any immediate plans to add tab completion to the composer, it’s definitely something we’ve wanted internally. Getting it to work well with the right balance of helpfulness vs distraction is tricky

For now, you might find the Tab completion feature in the editor itself helpful - it works great for code completion and can handle multi-line edits. You can check out how to use it here: Cursor – Overview

I’ll make sure to pass along your feedback about the Zed-style ghost text feature to the team

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