Update: Since the original posting below this, I’ve found the option I needed, so for anyone else who needs this. This option is already available, it’s just not configured by default.
So here is what I did, and hopefully this will help someone else out too:
- Open keyboard shorts
- Search for
Cursor Tab. - Bind the
Toggle Cursor Tabaction to something. For example, I didcmd+CwheneditorTextFocus && !editorHasSelection
That was pretty much the behavior I wanted. There are some other Cursor Tab options I didn’t explore, but you might find to be helpful to you.
(Original Posting
) Apologies to the Cursor Team for the gripe below 
To the Cursor Team:
I imagine if you build a feature, you want people to use it. I mean, don’t you want people to use this as much as possible?
Heck! This awesome feature is what sold Cursor in the first place, so I imagine feedback there would be still valuable even if it’s not the only thing you guys have going on now.
So, if the Cursor Team cares for input on the behavior there, here’s an idea.
Please provide an option for someone who wants to have Tab, but find it really distracting when unasked, so much so that they end up turning it off most of the time like pretty much everyone seems to doing atm.
The idea is to
- Run whatever you’re doing for Tab in the background.
- Provide a shortcut to show/hide the Tab suggestions (like Cmd + i or something)
Yes, do keep the current behavior, but at least provide an option to switch the behavior.
Thanks
, y’all.