Command-K and the terminal

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It’s driving me nuts that command-k, the standard for clearing the terminal scroll back, opens the AI tools. Like, I get it that you’ve standardized on that for your tools, and that’s great, but you also didn’t change the shortcut to clear terminal scroll back.

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Unfortunately, setting a different shortcut for cursorai.action.generateInTerminal doesn’t allow the terminal to be cleared. Cmd+K just fires the chord starter and you get the common message (Cmd+K) was pressed. Waiting for second key of chord….

Any ideas if there’s a way to make Cmd+K shortcut work standalone in the terminal, instead of waiting for a chord?

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This is really important for me as well. I’m so used to Command+K and it’s a crucial part in my workflow. It’s really uncomfortable for me to change this habit, of clearing the terminal without Command+K.

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Same. Driving me nuts. There are other bindings too, like CMD + SHIFT + L which would otherwise select all other instances of the current selection. I don’t want to have to remap my mind for this.

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Not having this disrupted my flow, so I’m retraining with control+L to clear the terminal

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I was able to prevent the composer by adding the !terminalFocus condition to the composer.startComposerPrompt shortcut.

So following overrides work for me (cursorai.action.generateInTerminal is now shift+cmd+k)

  {
    "key": "shift+cmd+k",
    "command": "cursorai.action.generateInTerminal",
    "when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported"
  },
  {
    "key": "cmd+k",
    "command": "-cursorai.action.generateInTerminal",
    "when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported"
  },
  {
    "key": "cmd+k",
    "command": "composer.startComposerPrompt",
    "when": "composerIsEnabled && !terminalFocus"
  },
  {
    "key": "cmd+k",
    "command": "-composer.startComposerPrompt",
    "when": "composerIsEnabled"
  }
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@rsngr Wow you are an angel! Thanks a lot!

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<3 <3 <3

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Should it? Ctrl + L is a shortcut to start a new chat. What does it have to do with the terminal? Or perhaps you meant something else?