Change Tab keybinding to accept Copilot++ suggestion

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Currently, if I’m hovering over an Intellisense suggestion, but there’s also a Copilot++ inline suggestion, pressing Tab prioritizes Copilot++ over Intellisense.

I’m used to using Tab with Intellisense and a different binding for copilot suggestions. I’ve been playing around with settings and keybindings but haven’t been able to resolve it.

Is it possible to change the keybinding for accepting Copilot++ suggestion from Tab to something else?

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Not as of now I assume. There has been a feature request for this. I had the same problem and had to relearn using Tab for copilot++ and another keybinding for intellicence. Now it seems fine though, as I’m using copilot++ much more often than intellicence or other quick suggestions.

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See here for our decision: Copilot and intellisense: tab always triggers copilot over intellisense?

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@amanrs is it functionally challenging to make them configurable because of the race condition?

From my perspective, it does add a level of friction. I’m coming over to Cursor from Webstorm/Pycharm. I used VS Code for years, but in the last year have preferred Jetbrains + Copilot over VS Code. Cursor definitely tips the scales back significantly but, as of now, I’m still using a combination of Cursor and Jetbrains. I imagine there’s a decent segment of Jetbrains users who might be looking at a similar transition because of the superior AI productivity features. The smoother you can make that transition, the better your shot at capturing a good chunk of users before Jetbrains potentially catches up.

Just my $0.02 because these are my two most often-used shortcuts.

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Thanks for the feedback, it shouldn’t be terrible, but we’ll look into it.

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Please make the Cursor Tab (formerly CoPilot++) accept action configurable. Just went through these frustrating steps:

  • I am experimenting with Cursor from a bespoke NeoVim setup. I want to use Alt+End (I use an unusual keyboard layout), not Tab, to accept Cursor Tab suggestions.
  • I search “Tab” in the Keyboard Shortcuts menu. There are 10 different commands bound to “Tab” in different contexts. There are a zillion commands in this menu as a whole. Great! Looks like everything is configurable. Surely Cursor’s flagship feature has a configurable keybinding since everything else does? One of these ten tab bindings must mean “accept Copilot++” suggestion (perhaps Accept Inline Edit)?
  • I create a new mapping for each of the 10 commands to my desired keybinding of Alt+End. Now every command mapped to “Tab” is also mapped to Alt+End
  • Pressing Alt+End when Cursor Tab presents a suggestion still does nothing.
  • I search this forum and discover this thread.
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+100 on this.

This is so frustrating. I am unnecessarily occupying your mail support channels with this topic. And i had to add TabNine back into the mix, just so that i can use the keyboard shortcut that i’m used to from many other applications. For example from MS Office, Google Docs, my Terminal, …
But I specifically chose to pay for Cursor Tab / Copilot++, NOT tabnine.

Also, we don’t seem to be expressing a particular corner-case wish here - you can already find similar issues on Gitlab. Remapping Tab Accept Suggestion to another shortcut · Issue #1318 · getcursor/cursor · GitHub
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Another vote on this! I truly hate the tab key binding. I use tab to navigate through my code while i work.

Cursor copilot++ suggestions are subtle, and most often off the screen to the right, so it is very easy to accidentally accept additions and, much worse, deletions to my code while i navigate.

I want suggestion accept to be tied to a key pattern i don’t normally use, not one of the most common. It would be so easy to make cursor++ accept shift-tab or something!

And while we’re improving this system, make suggestions in the main screen by default, not offscreen, where we have to accept and undo, just to see.

I personally would prefer the diff view, most of the time. Give me a shortcut for that too please!

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+1 on this.
Please, please, please make the Cursor Tab accept keybinding configurable.

It makes writing/navigating code a pain with cursor tab enabled, forcing me to disable it even though I would love to use it with a different keybinding.

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I also had to disable Cursor Tab due to it overriding other commands that rely on tab (e.g. intellisense, indentation), but I’d like to assign it to another shortcut (e.g. cmd+tab).

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+1 on this. I’m actually debating reverting to vscode because this doesn’t exist

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Hey guys, any updates here? Similar issues have been opened over a year ago, and it doesn’t seem like there’s any movement.
This is currently the thing that’s stopping me from purchasing the subscription.

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This seems like such a simple and basic feature that it blows my mind it isn’t already a thing, and continues to not be a thing months later :upside_down_face:

Cursor tab is nice, but it also constantly gets in my way when I want to just use the tab key for its original purpose. I basically can’t just use tab as the tab key without Cursor tab coming in like a wrecking ball to randomly start suggesting code which of course I then unintentionally accept and then have to undo, disable cursor tab, and try again. Very annoying.

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The most common case where this causes a problem is managing indentation (since a lot of us are writing Python):

  • Press Tab to indent a line
  • Cursor is super fast now, so just before I pressed Tab it made a suggestion
  • Tab causes changes to the code that I didn’t expect or review, and often the line isn’t even indented.

I could remap all my indentation hotkeys I guess, but I would love to be more intentional about accepting Cursor Tab suggestions and tab for indentation is deep in my muscle memory at this point.

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I understand the “Cursor Tab” marketing and I’m sure it sounds really nice to the marketing team and investors, but this is the most illogical, user unfriendly, anti dev thing I ever seen.

If you’re going to build dev products, don’t take advice from non dev people.

Please provide a reason why I can’t remap the tab key…

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I m looking forward to a solution for this as well as is pretty annoying.

Right now cursor keep messing on these cases:

  • when you try to make an import and vscode know where the file is but cursor put a totally random path which doesn’t even exist
  • when you try to insert tailwind classes that are autocompleted from the extension but cursor decide to allucintate and invent random classess
  • when you are filling any method where the ide alerady know the types and propose the following method but cursor decide that it does not like it
  • Actually all the times there is any other autocomplete I never wished to have cursor autocomplete instead so It would be better to disable it at all if there is any other suggestion from a different source

To be clear I want to use cursor autocomplete with tab but only if there is not any other suggestion from the ide/plugin/snippets etc…

So in the keybindings would be like this

Command Keybinding When
Accept Cursor suggestion Tab !hasOtherSuggestions

Is there a way to archieve this right now? because like this is not very usable.

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