CTRL backspace for deleting progress in chat

[g1ronn1mo]

It is super anoying that CTRL backspace for deleting progress in chat is implemented. I have pressed this so often, when having the wrong focus, deleting all the progress.

[vsly-ru]

I'm experiencing the same issue on Mac: Cmd+Backspace deletes or rejects all changes.
CMD+Backspace is a standard OS-level hotkey to delete a line in a text field! Why use it as a hotkey?!!!
Ctrl+Backspace is a hotkey on Windows and Linux to erase a word. It's a super common hotkey. You should never use common hotkeys like this ones! Please google your hotkey ideas before pushing it to prod!

I’ve accidentally deleted about $3 worth of changes made with Claude 3.7 MAX.

Cursor navigation in Cursor is very poor (pun intended).
Where else have you seen an input focus escaped with just the arrow keys?!
It doesn’t make any sense!
I’m so used to pressing Up in the middle of the first line and having the cursor move to the beginning of the line. In Cursor, the cursor disappears instead, and the focus shifts away from the input!
And it's getting worse! This new hotkey deletes all your edits if you're not careful enough.
Prompting is a very dangerous process in Cursor!

[orangutron]

@g1ronn1mo @vsly-ru I’m right there with you—this Ctrl+Backspace issue is driving me nuts too! I’m so used to using it to delete whole words in my chat messages, and now I’ve accidentally wiped out hours of work across multiple sessions because of this. It’s frustrating to lose progress just because my muscle memory kicks in at the wrong moment. I didn’t even realize how much time I’d lost until I started thinking about it—easily hours combined. I’m heading to the settings now to change that hotkey before I lose my mind (or more work). Please, devs, reconsider these default keybindings—common shortcuts like this shouldn’t be repurposed for something so destructive!

Edit: Just to clarify—it’s not just a single message or edit getting wiped out. Ctrl+Backspace seems to clear the entire chat’s progress, which is a nightmare these days with agent edits. When those agents make tons of changes in one go, losing it all with a single misclick is devastating. It’s so unproductive to have hours of work vanish like that. This really needs a fix or at least a warning prompt!

[vsly-ru]

I've also rebound all Cmd+Backspace Cursor's hotkeys that I can find, but it doesn't seem to affect the Reject all ⌘⌫ button(I've reloaded the window).
Looks like either the hotkey or the text is hardcoded (or both).

[lincalinca]

Yeah, c'mon Cursor, you've built in a straight-up anti-pattern. You absolutely need to remove this keybinding.

[SystemXFiles]

A similar problem is annoying, because the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Backspace is used by me everywhere for its intended purpose - to delete a word.

[paulboguta]

Yep. Having similar issue. I removed manually the keybind. Please fix for others ASAP.

[orangutron]

I've also rebound all Cmd+Backspace Cursor's hotkeys that I can find, but it doesn't seem to affect the Reject all ⌘⌫ button(I've reloaded the window). Looks like either the hotkey or the text is hardcoded (or both).

Yeah it doesn't seem to allow us to re-bind it as well. So we can't disable the problem functionality that is losing us progress and dollars if we happen to pay for the better claude or chat gpt model.