Cursor’s autocomplete is genuinely the best on the market for now. It’s the one thing that keeps me here.
Claude Code covers all my chat needs, so Cursor’s chat panel is completely irrelevant to my workflow. And yet, every single time I launch Cursor, the chat pane forces itself open. I don’t want it. I’ll never use it. And there’s no way to stop it.
This one UX behaviour is what’s pushing me out. Just an auto-opening panel I can’t disable.
I’ve seen multiple threads about this with no real fix. Please just add a setting: “Do not open chat on launch.” That’s it. Until then, I’m actively looking for a VSCode autocomplete extension that matches Cursor’s quality, and the moment I find one, I’m switching. It would be a shame to lose a user over something so trivial to fix.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. This isn’t the first request for this, so we can see it’s a common need.
Right now there’s no built-in setting, but as a quick workaround, Cmd+Opt+B on Mac or Ctrl+Alt+B on Windows will instantly close the chat pane.
Also, in this thread How to configure Chat pane not to open at start you mentioned the pane now stays closed when you reopen the workspace. That’s already an improvement compared to before. If the issue is only with the very first open of a new workspace, I’ll pass the feedback to the team, but there’s no ETA for a dedicated setting yet.
It’s so annoying me as well. When I Cmd+J in panel fullscreen so I could close and see the codeline. It’s always pop-up with no clue. Surprisingly, It couldn’t close at all. Why??? I’m appreciate what inline suggestion of cursor has done. But this is what you have to let user close. Why does you try to present user about what they don’t want stubbornly?
Another key is cmd+k, it show the different pop-up but also the chat-like box.