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. [image] Cmd K…

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.

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.

another… This is bad. I have tried to remap the keys as stated Cmd K hotkey conflict - #2 by arvid220u , and still have that composer pops up. I am about to stop the subscription…

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

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", …

@rsngr Wow you are an angel! Thanks a lot!

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?

Command-K and the terminal

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GFC (GFC) August 29, 2024, 6:54am 5

another… This is bad. I have tried to remap the keys as stated Cmd K hotkey conflict - #2 by arvid220u , and still have that composer pops up. I am about to stop the subscription…

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