When there is both a Copilot and an Intellisense suggestion, tab always chooses the Copilot suggestion in Cursor. In VSCode, tab chooses the Intellisense suggestion, which is often more correct. Why?

This is intentional! In Cursor: Tab always accepts Copilot’s ghost text. Enter always accepts the selected snippet from the Intellisense dropdown. In VSCode, as of writing this, there is a race condition between Copilot and Intellisense: if Copilot gives a suggestion before Intellisense, no Inte…

is there any way to customize this? I like the vscode’s way of handling this

Currently there’s not a way to customize this. I’ll look into adding a setting for this!

Adding setting here! Currently waiting for this PR to be merged in vscode: Add setting to allow inline completions and suggest widget to coexist by arvid220u · Pull Request #196182 · microsoft/vscode · GitHub

I want the same behaviour as Github Copilot, accept auto complete if present with tab, if instead i want the Copilot++, press esc and then tab

I really want the “Accept Completion” hotkey to be configurable. Coming from VS Code where tab prioritizes the suggestions dropdown menu, having that always accept the Copilot++ suggestion is frustrating because then I spend more time fixing code than being productive.

This feels like a very opinionated decision — it should be up to the end user to configure the hotkeys they find make most sense for them.

If it helps someone, I was able to configure a different shortcut for intellicence, while using tab for cursor tab. I also set intellicence to not auto display unless I press a shortcut. However in my case I never really use intellicence, but if I ever need that menu I can bring it up.

Copilot and intellisense: tab always triggers copilot over intellisense?

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theodorusclarence October 9, 2023, 7:02am 6

Thank you @arvid220u! It’s one thing that’s keeping me from fully using cursor. Would consider to buy pro plan if this is customizable

Really annoying behaviour on tab

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Copilot and intellisense: tab always triggers copilot over intellisense?

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