Tab Completion Support for Git Commit Messages

Ideas Feature Requests
1

Could you please implement tab completion support in Cursor’s git commit message window? Currently, Cursor offers excellent tab completion functionality while editing code, which significantly enhances productivity. However, this helpful feature is not available when writing commit messages.

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As a regular user, I’d love to see the same intelligent auto-completion capability extended to the git commit interface. This would allow developers to:

  1. Start typing a commit message and see AI-suggested completions based on the changes being committed
  2. Press the Tab key to accept these suggestions, just like during code editing
  3. Save time while creating more descriptive and consistent commit messages

The ideal implementation would analyze the current changes being committed and offer contextually relevant suggestions that follow good commit message practices. This would maintain the seamless experience Cursor provides throughout the entire development workflow.

Thank you for considering this enhancement!

2

I think it already has a built in feature to generate commit messages. Why aren’t you using it?

3

Thanks, my bad. But using a tab would be easier.

4

Fully generating a message doesn’t work well for me, it’s often quite far from what I’d write manually. Tab completion would allow me to start with what I want to say but Cursor would intelligently help me finish it, similarly to tab completion in editors.

So I agree with the original feature request, it would be a great feature to have.

5

Workaround: leave the text box empty, this will open an editor with .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG and there, the Tab completion works.