By any chance is there some kind of quick way to change the Cursor CMD + K’s to CMD + R’s and vice-versa? CMD + K is the default for many things in VSCode. Ty! [Cursor_and_YouTube_Music_-Happy_Relaxing_Guitar_Music_For_Children-YouTube_Music_and_Keyboard_Shortcuts—_worthy-v2]

There is a way actually! You can change workbench.action.keychord.leader. [image] How do I change the keychord bindings? Discussions In Cursor, Cmd/Ctrl+K is used for the inline edits. We therefore changed the keychord leader key to be Cmd+R on Mac and Ctrl+M …

Thanks @arvid220u ! Once I changed that I was able to switch the few Cursor commands to CMD + R instead. I think it was an odd choice to not have that be the default since CMD + K is the norm in vscode.

@tommulkins Could you share your changes to keybindings.json that achieved this? I added the following: { "key": "cmd+k", "command": "workbench.action.keychord.leader", }, { "key": "cmd+r", "command": "aipopup.action.modal.generate" } but with that config saved, when i pre…

Figured it out. You can’t do this directly in keybindings.json. You have to actually go to the Keybindings UI based Settings and set the workbench.action.keychord.leader to cmd+k. I then also set cmd+r to aipopup.action.modal.generate. Here are all those changes: Switch Cursor.sh cmd+k and cmd+r to…

hey @natemwilson - Sorry I didn’t see this until now. I went into Keyboard Shortcuts and changed the keychord.leader from there. [image]

Changing workbench.action.keychord.leader just saved me a lot of time… thank you!! Breaking all key chords was a bad move… I’m surprised they haven’t fixed this yet.

This is why I made the extension: [image] VSCode Keybindings for Cursor - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio Code - Restore familiar VSCode keybindings in Cursor editor. Smooth transition for VSCode users.

Thanks for your response! I really want to give Cursor a fair shot, but that cmd+k overwrite was really holding me back. I swapped them, I’m ok with learning a new command for cursor, but don’t want to learn a new command for everything else. I think it would be a good idea if they could add that…

Redefining workbench.action.keychord.leader is a huge improvement, but there’s still one broken thing: in classic VS Code, when I’m in the terminal, cmd+k clears the terminal. Currently it waits for a second chording key to be pressed. :frowning: I ended up using the extension that someone posted, …

thanks, amazing - popularity of this extension should also be a signal to cursor devs.

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Salva_r (Salva) January 28, 2025, 2:54pm 13

Insane to overwrite the most used key combination, thanks for the help.

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