CODEWITHSUNDEEP
visual-studio-2017
user1751825
user1751825

Reputation: 4309

backspace key has stopped working in Visual Studio 2017

I've just encountered an extremely frustrating problem in VS 2017 Pro. Backspace is completely non-functional in the editor.

I've tried some Googling, but the only references I've found to this kind of problem are very old, and in most cases, various other keys were effected, enter, arrows etc. For me it's only backspace.

I should add, the key is definitely ok, and works fine in all other applications.

I've obviously tried restarting Visual Studio, and Windows, to no effect.

As far as I'm aware there has been no recent windows or VS updates. I've been using VS 2017 without any problems for a few weeks now. This has only just happened this morning.

Does anyone have any idea what could cause this, or what I could try to do to fix it?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 11434

Answers (2)

LordDelacroix
LordDelacroix

Reputation: 59

There is another way - The command is Edit.DeleteBackwards and just map that to your Backspace key for the Text Editor.

Upvotes: 4

user1751825
user1751825

Reputation: 4309

I'm not sure what caused VS to get messed up, but I was able to eventually solve it by resetting the environment.

Tools -> Import and Export Settings -> Reset All Settings

Just in case it's helpful to anyone else.

Upvotes: 16

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