If it is just a “simple“ feature for the team, so why not just give it a try and implement it? The thread is old enough and there are plenty of people requesting this change. The editor keeps suggesting the most absurd changes to the code, which I accidentally press whenever switching between tabs and literally tired of rejecting the suggestions at this point.
I asked Cursor how to disable the Tab completion suggestions and the AI chat suggested and hallucinated an alternative solution of editing the delay time setting — basically this feature request. And then when I couldn’t find it, I found that I was upset it didn’t exist.
I guess I’ll be joining the disable (more likely) or snooze Cursor Tab train. To all of you who contributed to this thread with alternative solutions, thank you. I like to heavily use the normal variable/function/keyword tab completion, and if your internet is good, Cursor’s suggestions are just so fast and distracting and I find that I use it on accident very often.
I am shocked that there’s not a setting to adjust the time delay for the cursor TAB autocomplete.
Every day I quit cursor to use VSCode instead because the tab autocompletes (while helpful) are ANNOYINGLY fast. Even just 300 more milliseconds would make my and thousands of others’ users’ day better.
I also imagine the time to implement this feature would be one single day MAX for a single dev on the Cursor team, if not in an hour. It’s super minimal.
I imagine there are reason the Cursor team doesn’t want to implement this.
Probably financial reasons.
Every tab makes a request, and the more requests you make, the more money you spend, is my guess?
A 30 billion dollar company would cut such a feature for “financial” issues?
Absolutely agree. Its kinda mosquito. I cannot decide what is more annoying - 100 suggestions per second, or 10 update popups / relaunch per day
My post isn’t about “cutting” (getting rid of) a feature. It’s about adding a feature.
The valuation of Cursor is beside the point. Whether they’re valued at 3 billion or 3 million, OpenAI isn’t profitable yet, and by the same token (pun intended), it’s unlikely that Cursor is profitable yet either.
Tabbed autocompletes are a core monetized feature of Cursor, so it would make sense they’d try to keep them as frequent as possible. The more requests users make, the more money Cursor / the tech companies building the models make.
There could be other reasons, though, I’m just spitballing. shrug
Tab is your one really important feature. It makes no sense to not accommodate users with different accessibility requirements around your one core feature that differentiates this app from other editors. It’s really important you pay attention to people on this one, getting Tab right and making it work with people’s natural development style is going to be the make or break for this app. Implement delay, please. Make it a setting for how long to wait before suggesting. It’s one preference and a call to ‘sleep’. I know you can do this, folks.
Also, monetize the subscription. Don’t ever try to charge per-tab. You want people to use the tab feature not feel like they’re spending money every time they hit the button. If that’s the way it goes, people are going to quit. You want to incentivize it’s use, not provide a monetary disincentive for people to hit tab 
Same. Had to move the thing to option-tab to keep it from stomping all over my coding when I’m literally just trying to actually insert a tab.