[Bug] Tab Key Incorrectly Triggers Thinking Instead of File Completion
Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — emcd
Activity 13 comments · opened Sep 29, 2025 · closed Dec 11, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (emcd, contributor)
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Bug Description
Pressing tab toggles the thinking instead of tabbing through files that exist on disk. I used tabbing on files a lot. This is rather annoying in version 2.
Environment Info
- Platform: linux
- Terminal: vte-based
- Version: 2.0.0
- Feedback ID: f6bfdc68-5db4-449f-b64b-e22f81485aac
13 Comments
Agreed. It is better than the
/ttoggle that existed prior to version 2.0.0. And, tab completion does not seem to toggle thinking if you use it inside an@-reference. But, as I noted in the/tissue, there is a good reason to want tab completion to work outside of@-references: namely, to make Claude explicitly read a file before using an edit tool on it. (Providing files via@references can result in failed edit tool calls, since Claude needs to explicitly read them before editing them.)We really need a control key binding for the thinking toggle.
INDEED! I do not wish to dump file content in, I just need to tell it about something that it can inspect later.
agree and wait to bring tab completion back!
Thank you all. Doing it with @ is fine imo, helps me a lot! But I would prefer TAB, too. Its more intuitive and works better with CMD/BASH commands
Thanks for this issue! What was wrong with the original
thinkwithin the prompt? I thought it was quite nice.Btw, since I am not sure the current issue is clear about it, even after writing
@and entering tab-complete menutabtoggles thinking mode, which is obviously undesirableIt specifically breaks workflows where you use /commands to refer to file paths that are than passed as $arguments to the custom command.
I don't care about toggling thinking, I want my tab file-path autocomplete back. I loved it. I don't want to use the @, I want tab.
please fix it:
its annoying for such a long time
platform:linux tag can be removed: also affected is platform:mac !
In the meantime is there any workaround alternative key combination to do file completion at all?
yes, using @ when referencing files
That kind of works for local files but not for global @/opt/...
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