Inconsistent Cursor Tab dismissing behaviour

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I’d like to share some feedback about how dismissing Cursor Tab suggestions with the Escape key currently works. Overall, the behavior feels inconsistent.

Often (~30% of cases) after pressing Escape to dismiss a suggestion, Cursor immediately reopens an (almost) identical suggestion. In these cases, I end up pressing Escape multiple times before the prompt finally stays hidden. This usually happens when I pause to read what I just wrote.

Additionally, I’ve noticed that after dismissing a suggestion like this, Cursor Tab will sometimes stay completely silent and refuse to offer any new recommendations for a while. There doesn’t seem to be a clear trigger or pattern.

Ideally, pressing Escape should close the current suggestion and keep Cursor Tab silent until I interact with the editor again (moving the cursor, typing, etc.). Then, as soon as I do something, Cursor Tab should resume offering suggestions as usual.

I am not sure if this is a bug, or a feature, that I am not getting, or just undefined behavior, which is why I post this as feedback. I hope someone can enlighten me, in case I’m doing something wrong.

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It’s not just inconsistent, it’s downright obnoxious, I can press the escape key dozens of times and repeatedly get another suggested edit. It’s endless and I’m constantly having to snooze or disable it.

Making matters worse, it will overlay where I am typing so I can’t see my own text anymore and wont dismiss like the docs suggest by continuing to type, not until I click escape does it disappear, then it’ll open another window, and another, and another, until it gets disabled.

It’s useful performing large edits, but I hate the thing so much that it’s creating a total dislike for cursor entirely.

I write code manually, I do it as a hobby, I enjoy it, I started using cursor because it was useful, but this tab feature is wildly out of hand.

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