Ctrl+n in composer panel

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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)

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Hey, try pressing Shift + Enter instead to start a new line.

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not for new lines, it’s about navigating through a complex multiline prompt for composer

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This behavior is ruining my experience with Cursor. Using Ctrl+N to move the cursor to the next line or select the next item in a suggestion has become instinctive for me, as it is the canonical Unix shortcut in a text area. In Composer, I always need to write a long prompt for my tasks, and even though I have told myself many times not to use Ctrl+N in Composer, I still end up doing it several times a day. Each time, my already written prompts are cleared due to creating a new Composer. I have even removed the keybinding for the “New Composer” action and searched for Ctrl+N actions to ensure none of them create a new Composer, but none of these solutions have worked. Please fix this for the sake of being a programmer’s tool.

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Echoing reorx - for me, even after over a year of using Cursor I still find myself drafting prompts in other applications to avoid this problem.

Presumably this is a relatively low risk change?

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Chiming in here. Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P should go to the next and previous quick search, results, definitely. Instead, it clears stuff from the input.

CleanShot 2024-12-11 at 14.36.33

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Echoing this. This is the default readline / macos / emacs way to move around and for some of us, this is second nature to use these keybindings. I’m insanely frustrated with this behavior and it breaks flow.

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I’ve tried multiple configurations to fix Ctrl + N, including:

{
    "key": "ctrl+n",
    "command": "cursorDown",
    "when": "textInputFocus && (focusedView == 'workbench.panel.composerViewPane2.view' || focusedView == 'workbench.panel.aichat.view')"
},
{
    "key": "ctrl+n",
    "command": "cursorDown",
    "when": "inChatInput || composerInput || chatInputFocus"
},
{
    "key": "ctrl+n",
    "command": "cursorDown",
    "when": "inputFocus && !editorTextFocus && !suggestWidgetVisible && !inQuickOpen"
}

Despite this, Ctrl + N still stubbornly creates a new composer. I’ve already reported this as a bug:
MacOS: Fix Ctrl+N for CursorDown

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