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Restoring Save All with Ctrl + K,S in Cursor

Ctrl + K,S (Save All) is something I do by reflex every 20 seconds or so in VS Code. Sadly, Cursor broke this nice flow by hijacking the Ctrl + K shortcut.

So here's a quick way to fix that and make Ctrl + K,S save all in Cursor too:

  • Press Ctrl + Shift + P to open the Cursor command palette.
  • Search for Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON) and select it. This will open your keybindings.json file, where you can define custom keybindings.
  • In keybindings.json, add the following entry to override the hijacked shortcut:
[

  ...your existing keybindings here

  {
    "key": "ctrl+k s",
    "command": "workbench.action.files.saveAll",
    "when": "editorTextFocus"
  }
]