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Ronnie Overby
Ronnie Overby

Reputation: 46460

Disable Shift+Delete Cutting in Visual Studio

I type fast. Often times when programming I will select a line with Shift+End and then press the delete key, but I do this so quickly that my finger hasn't come off of the shift key. This results in replacing clipboard item with what was selected.

This is bad because many times I am deleting code before pasting some other code.

Apparently shift+del is an old school way of cutting.

I am aware of ctrl+shift+v for cycling through clipboard history in visual studio, but this is still terribly annoying.

Is there a way to disable this shortcut in visual studio or windows in general?

Upvotes: 52

Views: 9814

Answers (4)

Torben Junker Kjær
Torben Junker Kjær

Reputation: 4072

There is an easier way. The shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+L simply deletes the line you're on. Without having to select it first and without copying it to the clipboard.

Upvotes: 3

Dany0
Dany0

Reputation: 11

This autohotkey script solve this globally:

+Delete::
KeyWait Shift
Send {Delete}

shift+insert is okay, but shift+delete is just plain EVIL

I actually often lost code entirely, while being utterly confused where'd it go! :-)

Upvotes: 1

Jay
Jay

Reputation: 57899

The keyboard shortcuts are pretty thoroughly customizable in Visual Studio.

Go to Tools > Options then in the left select Environment > Keyboard

Select the command, select the shortcut you want to remove, click "Remove" and click "OK"

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If you wanted to circumvent this across Windows, you can use a one-line AutoHotkey script to convert Shift+Delete to just plain Delete:

+DELETE::SendInput,{DELETE}

Upvotes: 50

stvn
stvn

Reputation: 1198

Good answer. Although I assume some people will still like to perform the delete operation.

To still perform the wipe of the entire line with SHIFT+DEL but don't add it to the clipboard:

remove (as explained above) the binding of SHIFT+DEL to the Edit.Cut command

AND

bind the SHIFT+DEL combination to the Edit.LineDelete command.

Upvotes: 54

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