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I’ve been relying on Cursor IDE with Copilot++ for my AI coding projects, but I hit a frustrating roadblock when I couldn’t accept suggestions word by word like I used to in GitHub Copilot. This made my workflow slower and error-prone, especially when suggestions started strong but went off-track midway. After some trial and error, I figured out a simple solution that transformed my coding experience.
The Core Problem: Accepting Partial Suggestions
In GitHub Copilot, pressing Ctrl+Right Arrow let me accept just the next word of a suggestion, giving me control to tweak inaccuracies without accepting the whole block. But in Copilot++, it either forced an all-or-nothing Tab acceptance or didn’t work at all—Ctrl+Right Arrow just moved my cursor to the next line or caused unexpected behavior. This was a deal breaker because it slowed me down and increased the risk of unchecked code errors in my projects.
How I Enabled Word-by-Word Acceptance
Through persistence, I discovered that recent Cursor updates added support for this feature, but it wasn’t enabled by default. Here’s the step-by-step process that worked for me:
- First, I opened Cursor IDE and went to Settings by clicking on the gear icon or using the command palette.
- Next, I navigated to Features > Copilot++ and toggled on the option for “Accept partial suggestions” or a similar setting. This instantly allowed Ctrl+Right Arrow to work as expected.
- If that didn’t resolve it, I checked my keybindings by editing keybindings.json. I added a custom binding like this:
{"key": "ctrl+right", "command": "acceptNextWordOfSuggestion", "when": "cppSuggestion && !editorReadonly || inlineSuggestionVisible && !editorReadonly"}to ensure it only triggers when a suggestion is visible.
Once I enabled this, my muscle memory kicked back in, and I could efficiently accept suggestions word by word, saving me time and reducing errors in my code. Now, Copilot++ feels like a seamless upgrade, and I’m coding faster than ever.
