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Quick Disable/Enable AI Autocomplete & Suggestions

Question​

Is there a way to disable/enable the AI autocomplete & suggestions? If not, it would be great to have some “shutup/speakup” shortcut. The reasoning behind is the fact that sometimes the autocomplete doesn’t allow for thinking/editing without making a mess of the visualization. It can become quite annoying. Thanks.

Answers​

1. Response by eMarine​

Is there a way to disable/enable the AI autocomplete & suggestions? If not, it would be great to have some “shutup/speakup” shortcut. The reasoning behind is the fact that sometimes the autocomplete doesn’t allow for thinking/editing without making a mess of the visualization. It can become quite annoying. Thanks.

2. Response by fun_strange​

It would be nice to have a shortcut to trigger the autocomplete. It would work like this:

  1. If the autocomplete is enabled - pressing the shortcut would forcefully run a suggestion, whether it’s already showing or not.
  2. If autocomplete is disabled - pressing the shortcut would trigger a suggestion despite the autocomplete being disabled.

This would solve both problems:

  1. Sometimes autocomplete doesn’t suggest for whatever reason or if you accidentally clicked away from a suggestion.
  2. Allowing people to manually trigger it while otherwise keeping it disabled.

3. Response by litecode​

I am away from the computer at the moment, so I can’t share a screenshot, but at the bottom right of the screen, there is a Cursor Tab button which you can click to toggle the functionality on and off. And I believe there is a shortcut for that, or at least a clickable link that appears close to where your cursor is, that offers you the choice to turn it off. I will confirm when back at the computer.

4. Response by deanrie​

I think you can set a shortcut to this in the keybinding settings. See my screenshot. You can also set it to enable - “enable cursor tab”.

5. Response by eMarine​

That’s not a bad idea. Would also work for me. But I still think it would be nice to have some behavioral controls. Even if it is as you say, some people may want it to be as it is now.

6. Response by litecode​

Further to my last post in this thread, this is the behavior I was referring to:

  • Screenshot 01 - Cursor Tab link in bottom right of screen - ON
  • Screenshot 02 - Option to turn off Cursor Tab from within Editor
  • Screenshot 03 - Cursor Tab link in bottom right of screen - OFF

7. Response by cbigger​

Maybe a stupid gripe, but there are separate commands for the disable and enable settings. It should be a single switch. As it currently stands, one has to make two different keybindings on what is already a binding-cramped application imo (necessarily so, but still).

8. Response by amazing-magician​

To set a keybinding to enable and disable autocomplete (aka Cursor Tab):

  1. Type Command/Ctrl + Shift + P.
  2. Go to “preferences: open keyboard shortcuts”.
  3. Search ‘cursor tab’.
  4. Set an enable hotkey and a disable hotkey.

There is no option to have a single hotkey that toggles it AFAIK.

9. Response by mbylst​

I wish to do this with a vim leader key for example like:

"vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
  {
    "before": ["<leader>", "z"],
    "commands": ["workbench.action.toggleZenMode"]
  },
]

Is it possible? What is the command name?

10. Response by deanrie​

{
  "key": "cmd+1",
  "command": "editor.cpp.disableenabled"
},
{
  "key": "cmd+2",
  "command": "editor.action.enableCppGlobally"
}

11. Response by shailu1309​

This is only for auto imports and type checks, it would be nice to have the same feature for intellisense.

Source​

@https://forum.cursor.com/t/quick-disable-enable/15587