I use the tab complete option alot, but lately it’s been very agressive in deleting code that is perfectly valid.
I will tab complete to add a block of code, then it immediately wants to delete the code.
I will scroll down the file and it will just randomly highlight perfectly valid code or even critical code and suggest to delete it. No justification or anything.
I want to keep the tab option, but at this rate I;m turning it off more and more to keep it from destroying my code.
Is there some way to tune it so it is less agressive? Or options to prevent random deletions of code outside of an add?
Steps to Reproduce
Hit tab complete to complete a chunk of code and more likely than not, the code that was just added will be suggested to be deleted.
Expected Behavior
Don’t randomly suggest to delete code.
Operating System
Windows 10/11
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
There are 2 main problems that if they were fixed would make tab usable again:
If I hit escape to dismiss the Tab suggestion, don’t popup another suggestion. I dismissed it so I can get the TAB key control back. Hitting ESC should leave tab completion OFF untill the cursor moves or I hit enter.
Often times I hit ESC multiple times before it clears. Very often in keeps suggesting different completions until the final one is to delete everything (WTF!!!)
The index for TC needs to update itself much more often. Many times i delete or change some code or viarbale, but TC keep suggesting to either
put it back in (even though I explicitly deleted the code)
Use it in the following lines even thought the variable no longer exists
All of this makes the TC feature so frustrating I leave it off most of the time.
About every 5-10 inline suggestions I accept (), the next suggestion is to delete an entire block of healthy code in the lines that follow. This makes fast acceptance of suggestions extremely dangerous and the IDE as a whole barely trustworthy to use.
It has been happening consistently for the past week.
I checked, this is not dead code due to indentation issues or otherwise.
Steps to Reproduce
Just using cursor triggers it constantly, even when editing a comment, it decides the next action should be deleteting 20 lines of code.
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Second that, it’s getting worse instead of better.
I keep getting suggestions which proceed to change a line I was working on, but also suggest to delete the (small) unrelated method below the method I’m editing, and the method definition and half of the docstring (python) of the method below that one. Apart from being absolute nonsense, cutting away half a docstring leads to an unterminated “““, which invalidates the whole file.
This is getting in my way more and more, especially now that I’m getting hesitant to use TAB completion at all. I sometimes miss accidentally deleted healthy code, leading to errors. I got used to hitting TAB a lot (the Tab completion - apart from suggesting to delete code - is actually incredibly useful) but now this habit is turning against me with these latest changes in the model. Hope it gets fixed soon!
Out of nowhere Cursor Tab will suddenly try to delete a huge chunk of unrelated code (relative to the previous few tab completions), often combined with a bit of actually useful code. Mostly seeing it in TS files as that’s what I work with the most, and the lines it tries to delete are almost always whatever happens to be in the next handful of lines.
Here’s a really simple example, trying to add a single entry to an index file and it’s suggesting to rename a mistyped export, but also delete all subsequent entries:
Same issues. I work in C# and javascript.
Sometimes I just wan to correct some indentations, and got some random pieces of code deleted.
Another usual issue is when modifying code at the beginning of the file, it randomly adds imports, or namespaces. Its harder to detect those as most of the time nothing breaks.
