Question

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?

Answer 1

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”

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}