# Ctrl+N in Composer/Chat **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [January 20, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/ctrl-n-in-composer-chat/42779 "2025-01-20T07:04:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShaunF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ShaunF](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ShaunF)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/ctrl-n-in-composer-chat/42779/1 "2025-01-20T07:04:36Z")
There are several other threads asking to please help address the issue of not being able to navigate text via Ctrl+N in the Composer/Chat windows, because Ctrl+N automatically creates a new chat instead of Cursor-Down. > [@Ctrl+n in composer panel](https://forum.cursor.com/t/ctrl-n-in-composer-panel/31586): > > when typing a message in composer on macOS, ctrl+n should go down a line instead of creating a new composer (reserved for cmd+N) > [@\[MacOS\]Please fix keyboard shortcut to CursorDown for Ctrl-N in composer](https://forum.cursor.com/t/macos-please-fix-keyboard-shortcut-to-cursordown-for-ctrl-n-in-composer/40134): > > Hi, thanks for reporting an issue with Cursor. Before you report this, we’d appreciate if you can search this forum to see if this issue has already been reported. If you have done so, please check this box. on Describe the Bug Why does Ctrl + N open a new composer instead of doing cursorDown? Seriously, I’ve disabled every other Ctrl + N shortcut except cursorDown. Yet it still stubbornly ignores the expected behavior. WHY? Steps to Reproduce Open Keyboard Shortcuts with Ctrl + Shift + P.… Changing the Keyboard Shortcuts does not work. Changing the keyboard shortcuts .json file does not work. This seems like a very simple bug to fix. Can we please address it? Tons of prompts are getting lost because we are used to standard keybindings. Thank you, Shaun ---
**Author:** ![catkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@catkins](https://forum.cursor.com/u/catkins)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/ctrl-n-in-composer-chat/42779/2 "2025-01-20T07:29:16Z")
Exactly! It’s so annoying. Do the guys on the Cursor team not use the macOS version? How can this still be a thing? ---
**Author:** ![danperks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/danperks/32/19087_2.png) [@danperks](https://forum.cursor.com/u/danperks)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/ctrl-n-in-composer-chat/42779/3 "2025-01-20T12:04:38Z")
Hey, a lot of us use Mac but I guess not many use the CTRL+N shortcut to move up and down! I’ve added this to our feedback tracker, so we can hopefully add a solution to this in a future update. ---
**Author:** ![ShaunF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ShaunF](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ShaunF)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/ctrl-n-in-composer-chat/42779/4 "2025-01-22T12:28:53Z")
Thank you so much @danperks That would be tremendously helpful. I irrecoverably lose several prompts per day because I forget about this. Even an “Undo” functionality for the text would be useful. Or something that saves the history for non-submitted prompts. ---
**Author:** ![xc1427](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/xc1427/32/21169_2.png) [@xc1427](https://forum.cursor.com/u/xc1427)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/ctrl-n-in-composer-chat/42779/5 "2025-01-24T03:24:53Z")
Thanks for taking account ! It is really annoying and I suppose the number of developers who use this shortcut may be underrated 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![sanjeed5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/sanjeed5/32/9610_2.png) [@sanjeed5](https://forum.cursor.com/u/sanjeed5)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/ctrl-n-in-composer-chat/42779/7 "2025-02-12T10:20:47Z")
is the feedback tracker public? ---
**Author:** ![danperks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/danperks/32/19087_2.png) [@danperks](https://forum.cursor.com/u/danperks)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/ctrl-n-in-composer-chat/42779/8 "2025-02-12T16:17:34Z")
Hey, it is not, unfortunately!