Hello everyone.
It’d be great if we could set a delay for auto-suggestions, something between 0 and 2 seconds. Too often, I see myself being distracted by suggestions while I am typing (!!) because they show up too often and too fast. That causes distraction and often annoying shifting of the code. And I also guess that’s a waste of resources on your part for suggestions that will never be used.
Please add a “suggestion delay” value setting we can use to avoid all of the above.
Thanks!
Has there been found a solution for this?
I don’t think so… I am still struggling with the same issue.
My ESC key is getting worn from cancelling premature autocompletes. Being able to tune tune this in settings would be a welcome improvement.
Would appreciate this also. 
Yes, please, that would be great. I often use the Tab key to move lines of code forward or backward. Right now, I can’t do that because every time I press it, it either adds unwanted code or jumps to another line.
I really need this for markdown, it’s useful to have suggestions but the immediate suggestions while typing really derail my train of thought. It’s like having someone constantly talking at you while you’re trying to think.
I’ve just disabled it completely for markdown for now.
I see many people would like this feature, or this other similar one I also suggested:
However, I still see that Cursor doesn’t include any such options. Quite disappointing. Yesterday, I was going to throw my computer out of the window because Cursor kept showing suggestions and rearranging my code when I just wanted to move to the next indentation. Very frustrating.
Yes, hundreds times yes. Sometimes is just too fast. When you just want to open bracket, go to the next line and start writing your code it keeps prompting every time in split second, i had to cancel it 3 or 4 times. Let us customize the tab prompt display delay.
Need this feature. Premature suggestions are very very distracting. I do have a button mapped to toggle Tab on and off, but even with it, it’s very annoying.
Cursor autocomplete is too fast and too eager! It makes suggestions too quickly when I’m typing out something. This is absolute disastrous when working specially with YAML for all Devops engineers and in Python. I would like it to only autocomplete when I stop typing and wait about 1-2 second before showing suggestion.
One workaround would be to wire up a shortcut that can enable/disable Cursor Tab with a keyboard shortcut. As I want to use the same keyboard shortcut to enable and disable, I need to find the context key to know when it’s enabled or disable to use in the clause context. Trying to follow when clause contexts | Visual Studio Code Extension API to find out the context keys didn’t quite work in Cursor. @condor Do you know if Cursor disables some Developer tools? Or maybe you can tell what the context key for Cursor Tab enabled/disabled?
I still can’t understand why the Cursor team hasn’t added a simple option like that: either a preference delay of 0-5 seconds to have a suggestion, or a keyboard shortcut to show the suggestion when you want to, like Zed is doing.
Personally, I moved to Zed. I couldn’t bear Cursor’s eager suggestions anymore. Too distracting and annoying. Maybe if you vibe code, that works for you. But not for me. I need to “think” and be able to move the cursor to the next tab without engaging any suggestions that mess up my code and make me waste time. We are developers. Please give us more control, not less!
Hi @fablau,
Thank you for your suggestion! We receive hundreds of ‘simple’ feature requests daily. To keep Cursor maintainable for everyone, we focus on adding features that benefit the majority of users. Sometimes, features may also be removed if similar functionality is available through other options.
I understand how a slower tab or delay could be useful. If enough users vote for it, we’ll definitely prioritize this feature. In the meantime, you can:
Thanks again for your feedback!
Thank you for chiming in. I completely understand that priorities need to be set, but given the size of your development team on Cursor (and I guess it is not small), I imagine it might be possible to assign this to just one developer. From my perspective, adding such an option seems like it could be implemented relatively quickly—perhaps in 15–30 minutes—even without AI assistance. It’d make thousands of people happy, I am sure. Many friends of mine, developers too, just moved to Zed without even posting or voting here. They just moved there because of the lack of such a feature and other benefits present on the Zed platform vs Cursor (speed in the first place). Just saying… 
Ohh thank you very much for your comment. I was sort-of in a limbo choosing editors, and the only thing that still made me consider Cursor what the hope that this feature request would be taken seriously. Now that I know it won’t, and unacceptable (imo) alternatives like a “keyboard shortcuts” are the canonical way to work this out, I can happily disregard Cursor, move on to another editor, and never even consider Cursor ever again. Thread silenced. Godspeed fellow feature seekers.
OK seriously.. This lack of delay makes suggestions unusable - the constant flood of suggestions as I try to see what I am coding. I’m about to turn it off which really ■■■■■. We all know this is a serious problem. Same reason I turned it off in VSC. I had really expected given this isn’t free and the fact it’s AI centric this wouldn’t be happening here. I stand wrong and I am utterly shocked and disappointed. Please. Pretty please. Or I guess I need to go check out ‘Zed’.
+1 for this. I can’t even hit my tab key since suggestions always appear instantly and I’m constantly undoing random suggestions that gets autocompleted on accident. I want to keep tab for autocomplete but for goodness sake let me use it as it’s meant to be used sometimes. 
I find myself snoozing the “Cursor Tab” suggestions very often. Really frustrating for all the reasons already listed in this thread.
I ended up changing my key bindings because having it as tab with no delay has been a frustrating experience 