For the love of god, how to set keyboard shortcut for add to chat?

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Describe the Bug

When you select text, a button comes up, “add to chat”. What is the keyboard shortcut for that?

It is NOT cmd +shift + L, because that is aichat.insertselectionintochat which starts a new chat with the selection. When you press the button, it adds the selection into EXISTING chat

Steps to Reproduce

When you select text, a button comes up, “add to chat”. What is the keyboard shortcut for that?

It is NOT cmd +shift + L, because that is aichat.insertselectionintochat which starts a new chat with the selection. When you press the button, it adds the selection into EXISTING chat

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.3
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: e50823e9ded15fddfd743c7122b4724130c25df0
Date: 2025-08-08T17:34:53.060Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

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Hey, we removed this keyboard shortcut by default. If you need to add a selected code snippet to a new chat, use Cmd + Shift + I.

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I dont want to add it to a new chat, I want to add it to existing chat, just like the button popup “add to chat”. How do I do that with a keyboard shortcut?

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Try the shortcut Cmd + I.

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works great thank you. Finally! But for future reference what is the actual thing called in keyboard shortcuts settings?

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This is not specified in Cursor, Cmd + I just opens the chat panel, but if text is selected, it adds it to the context.

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