# For the love of god, how to set keyboard shortcut for add to chat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [August 11, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-how-to-set-keyboard-shortcut-for-add-to-chat/128462 "2025-08-11T15:38:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/db5fbb/32.png) [@nom](https://forum.cursor.com/u/nom)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-how-to-set-keyboard-shortcut-for-add-to-chat/128462/1 "2025-08-11T15:38:22Z")
### 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 ---
**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 5:01am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-how-to-set-keyboard-shortcut-for-add-to-chat/128462/2 "2025-08-12T05:01:50Z")
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`. ---
**Author:** ![nom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/db5fbb/32.png) [@nom](https://forum.cursor.com/u/nom)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-how-to-set-keyboard-shortcut-for-add-to-chat/128462/3 "2025-08-18T14:20:37Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-how-to-set-keyboard-shortcut-for-add-to-chat/128462/4 "2025-08-18T16:01:49Z")
Try the shortcut `Cmd + I`. ---
**Author:** ![nom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/db5fbb/32.png) [@nom](https://forum.cursor.com/u/nom)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-how-to-set-keyboard-shortcut-for-add-to-chat/128462/5 "2025-08-18T16:16:18Z")
works great thank you. Finally! But for future reference what is the actual thing called in keyboard shortcuts settings? ---
**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-how-to-set-keyboard-shortcut-for-add-to-chat/128462/6 "2025-08-18T16:23:14Z")
This is not specified in Cursor, `Cmd + I` just opens the chat panel, but if text is selected, it adds it to the context. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-how-to-set-keyboard-shortcut-for-add-to-chat/128462/7 "2025-09-09T16:23:41Z")
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