degi
October 23, 2025, 6:14am
1
Cursor IDE
Using h/j/k/l to navigate is so slow it’s basically unusable
The cursor moves slowly, lags, and jumps around instead of scrolling smoothly.
Install vscodevim.vim extension and try to move your cursor on the editor in normal mode.
It was fast, and smooth
MacOS
Version: 1.7.54
Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor
deanrie
October 23, 2025, 12:39pm
2
Hey, thanks for the report. Vim navigation lag can have different causes. Help us narrow it down:
Please share:
Check Extension Monitor Cmd+Shift+P → “Developer: Open Extension Monitor” what’s the CPU/memory usage for VSCodeVim?
What file type and size are you editing when this happens?
Do you have other extensions installed?
Let me know what you find.
degi
October 24, 2025, 6:36am
3
this command doesn’t exists.
Any file size, and any file type. Markdown file 50 lines, or Typescript file with few hundred lines, all laggy.
Yeah, I have so many other extensions installed, but it was there for all the time. And it was fine until recently.
Ah, sorry, you need to enable the experimental feature.
degi
November 3, 2025, 8:34am
5
It says zero for everything
I have the same problem. It started happenning due to recent Cursor update I believe. 2 months ago vim mode is pretty smooth.
dmarkow
November 14, 2025, 12:41pm
7
Same issue, also started recently. Looking at the cursor tab logs:
When I hold down the down key to scroll through a file, cursor doesn’t send a tab completion request until I let go
When I hold down j instead to scroll down, cursor tab repeated fires requests for almost every line. Just tried it in a 500 line file, and it fired off around 450 requests.
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does disabling Cursor Tab fix the issue for you? it’s still pretty laggy for me even when I disable Cursor Tab
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