Backspace and enter button stops working in cursor

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For some reason my back and enter button stops working suddenly in cursor. Works fine anywhere else. First thought there might be any issue with my keyboard but nope.

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Hi @ashutoshb09,

Sorry to hear that this is happening to you. Could you provide more details about which operating system you’re using? Are you using the latest version of Cursor?

Also, does restarting the app solve the issue? Would love to know if there are steps to reproduce this issue!

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Hey @shaoruu I am using macos sonoma and latest version of cursor. This was also happening in previous version though.

Yeah restarting it solves the issue sometimes and even after restarting it starts to happen again. Some times have to restart my laptop to fix this

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Hi @ashutoshb09,

Does this happen persistently every time you open Cursor? Do you have certain things open for this to happen? Just curious, have you tried disabling Copilot++ or Github Copilot (the extension)? These two sometimes cause some clash between keybindings, not sure if this is caused by that though…

It would also be very helpful if you could provide a screen recording or something in that sense to help me reproduce! And again, thank you for reporting, I will be here to help.

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Nope its very random. Yesterday it became persistent though, seems fine now. Will screen record and share next time it happens

Nah, didn’t try disabling copilot++ or github copilot. Will try this if it happens next.

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happens to me too. seems to happen when the ghost text is trying to do too much and im fighting it

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This is happening to me as well on Mac running Sequoia.
It’s impossible to give steps to reproduce. Things work fine, then suddenly the space bar stops working in ai chat, terminal - well everywhere in cursor. No problem out of Cursor.
Restarting Cursor fixes the problem for I guess 30 - 60 minutes. Then it happens again. There’s no visible error. Nothing to report. I’m on the latest version, but it only started happening a few days back. I didn’t have a problem before that. I can’t think of any particular change that occured when it started.

Only space is failing for me, backspace still works.