# Setting rules for Tabs

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/setting-rules-for-tabs/81263>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [April 19, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/setting-rules-for-tabs/81263 "2025-04-19T13:36:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![qm965](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/qm965/32/48347_2.png) [@qm965](https://forum.cursor.com/u/qm965)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/setting-rules-for-tabs/81263/1 "2025-04-19T13:36:06Z")

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Setting rules for tabs, e.g. you can set a tab to be triggered only when needed, by a shortcut key.

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**Author:** ![qm965](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/qm965/32/48347_2.png) [@qm965](https://forum.cursor.com/u/qm965)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/setting-rules-for-tabs/81263/2 "2025-04-19T16:31:32Z")

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Or what code principles should be followed for the complementary information, which can be written in the rules

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**Author:** ![qm965](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/qm965/32/48347_2.png) [@qm965](https://forum.cursor.com/u/qm965)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/setting-rules-for-tabs/81263/3 "2025-04-19T16:32:38Z")

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For example: more security and no vulnerabilities,

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**Author:** ![eric-burel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/eric-burel/32/74273_2.png) [@eric-burel](https://forum.cursor.com/u/eric-burel)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/setting-rules-for-tabs/81263/4 "2025-10-14T07:52:41Z")

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Use case would be avoiding hallucinations like generating links when typing some markdown

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**Author:** ![dyigitpolat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/dyigitpolat/32/83509_2.png) [@dyigitpolat](https://forum.cursor.com/u/dyigitpolat)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/setting-rules-for-tabs/81263/5 "2025-10-18T17:50:08Z")

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If Cursor team is worried about potentially increased context lengths, they can limit the .cursortabrules entries to a max number of tokens.

This feature is crucial, especially for programming language designers.