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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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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Change Ctrl+l to Ctrl+i - Control L is for Clear 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?

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You are a god among humans

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I love you!

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Better than AI, thanks for this snippet!! :heart:

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Oh thank f*** this was driving me nuts, too. Cursor devs, please rethink this default. Cmd+K is one of the most used terminal shortcuts, at least in my workflow.

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Did this ‘fix’ break in the latest update?

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Changed when to:

"when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported || terminalHasBeenCreated && terminalPromptBarVisible || terminalProcessSupported && terminalPromptBarVisible"

It seems to be working now.

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It seriously kicked me out of flow today as Command K didn’t clear terminal :slight_smile: … but this fix worked for me in the latest version

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  1. Press Command + Shift + P (to open Command Palette)
  2. Search: “Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON)”
  3. Upload the following JSON content in the keybindings.json file
// Place your key bindings in this file to override the defaults
[
  {
    "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 || terminalHasBeenCreated && terminalPromptBarVisible || terminalProcessSupported && terminalPromptBarVisible"
  },
  {
    "key": "cmd+k",
    "command": "composer.startComposerPrompt",
    "when": "composerIsEnabled && !terminalFocus"
  },
  {
    "key": "cmd+k",
    "command": "-composer.startComposerPrompt",
    "when": "composerIsEnabled"
  }
]
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Thank you for the update!

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The fact this is still an issue that requires manual override is nuts…

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@firrae thanks for the bump, as there are many shortcuts overlapping between apps, OS and tools, this is a bit tricky. Does the change of ‘when’ case narrowing down the shortcut help for your case? I’ve forwarded the feature request to Cursor Team.