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?
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.
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}
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.