Tab is not great for Jupyter notebooks

Hi everyone!

Wanted to share my recent experience working on jupyter notebooks in Cursor (I think some elements are bug reports and some feature requests? wasn’t sure so I’m putting it under “Feedback”).
I’ve been hitting my head against my keyboard and snoozing tab today for my notebook work:

  • tab comes up with lengthy, multi-line suggestions when really I’m just doing a simple thing, or just comes up with complete garbage (see screenshot below). I think in previous versions that wasn’t the case as much.

  • When escaping tab (to dismiss suggestion), it sometimes escapes out of the current cell as well, so to get back into it I have to hit enter, which disrupts my flow even more.

  • I had turned on cmd + right arrow for partially accepting a tab suggest (goes word by word, can be useful sometimes) but that’s just interfering with my usage of cmd + right arrow for going to the end of the line.

All in all it’s been challenging, and a constant battle between esc, cmd + right arrow , enter, and cmd + Z.

Couple things I was thinking:

  • I may pick a different shortcut for accepting tab suggestions word by word
  • I’d love to be able to snooze / disable tab for notebooks only (.ipynb), not sure if that’s possible?

Curious if others have experienced similar difficulties, and if you’ve got good workarounds!

PS: cmd + K to write certain functions or help me out, when prompted, still works great.

Screenshot 2025-06-26 at 19.14.46

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