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Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

310 points skarat | 2 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.747s | source

Things are changing so fast with these vscode forks I m barely able to keep up. Which one are you guys using currently? How does the autocomplete etc, compare between the two?
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welder ◴[12 May 25 07:43 UTC] No.43960527[source]▶
Neither? I'm surprised nobody has said it yet. I turned off AI autocomplete, and sometimes use the chat to debug or generate simple code but only when I prompt it to. Continuous autocomplete is just annoying and slows me down.
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blitzar ◴[12 May 25 08:36 UTC] No.43960844[source]▶
I shortcut the "cursor tab" and enable or disable it as needed. If only Ai was smart enough to learn when I do and don't want it (like clippy in the ms days) - when you are manually toggling it on/off clear patterns emerge (to me at least) as to when I do and don't want it.
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jonwinstanley ◴[12 May 25 08:40 UTC] No.43960870[source]▶
How do you do that? Sorry if it's obvious - I've looked for this functionality before and didn't spot it
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1. blitzar ◴[12 May 25 08:43 UTC] No.43960885[source]▶
Bottom right says "cursor tab" you can manually manipulate it there (and snooze for X minutes - interesting feature). For binding shortcuts - Command/Ctrl + Shift + P, then look for "Enable|Disable|Whatever Cursor Tab" and set shortcuts there.

Old fashioned variable name / function name auto complete is not affected.

I considered a small macropad to enable / disable with a status light - but honestly don't do enough work to justify avoiding work by finding / building / configuring / rebuilding such a solution. If the future is this sort of extreme autocomplete in everything I do on a computer, I would probably go to the effort.

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2. jonwinstanley ◴[12 May 25 09:09 UTC] No.43961045[source]▶
Thanks!

The thing that bugs me is when Im trying to use tab to indent with spaces, but I get a suggestion instead.

I tried to disable caps lock, then remap tab to caps lock, but no joy