It’s a little bit off for me to type a long message in composer and hit enter by error and trigger the AI. I want to complete the whole context message before hitting triggering the submit and I think this would be a great idea.

C’mon guys! This doesn’t seem like a hard feature to add to options. Bury it in the settings, leave it as Enter by default.

Also waiting for this. I’ve started using an external text editor to be able to write long, structured prompts, without risking sending it by mistake mid-way. But this has obvious implications, such as not being able to use @ to reference files and folders. Please Cursor team!

I cannot believe there’s no way to change the default enter key for submit, that’s very frustrating!

I’m with the hundreds of other people… Seems simple enough to have a setting so you need CTRL-Enter to send the message. It’s so easy to accidently try to go to a new line and now you’re sending an incomplete message. Works in THIS box! :wink:

Hey guys, how’s it going on this? This is sorely needed.

I’m very surprised that such a simple feature is still not implemented. I get used to Ctrl + Enter in Gemini AI Studio or Jupyter Notebook, it would be great to have the same way to send message to chat in Cursor.

+1, excited for this While we wait on the team to implement this, has somebody written an extension or something to get us by? I remember when I first got VSCode a while back, somebody very helpfully had written an extension that implemented the missing “Insert” key’s overtype behavior …

why not give a keyboard shortcut for user config ? it is that difficult to develop ? annoying every single day!!!

Submit prompt with control+enter in composer

Ideas Feature Requests

leerob (Lee Robinson) February 6, 2026, 2:31pm 59

This is now available on nightly and will be in the next stable release!

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Disable the Enter key to send the chat Feature Requests	20	1528	February 16, 2026
New chat option for Enter key: submit chat, or add newline Feature Requests	3	256	February 6, 2026
Tell me how in the chat when pressing enter there was a new line and not sending a request Feature Requests	6	2839	February 6, 2026
Make Enter insert newline in chat, Cmd+Enter to submit Feature Requests	1	462	February 6, 2026
Writing long prompts and accidentally hitting Enter Feature Requests	8	335	February 6, 2026

Submit prompt with control+enter in composer

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