How do you stop Visual Studio from waiting for the second part of a shortcut-combination?

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If I press a shortcut combination (such as Ctrl+M) – VS waits for the second one. What if I want to cancel it? (e.g. if I mistakenly press the wrong letter and am not sure which one.)

It just waits, with the "(Ctrl+M) was pressed. Waiting for a second key of chord..." in the bottom of the screen.

How do I cancel it?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '12 at 18:01

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Press Escape. Usually it is not tied as a second keystroke.

answered Jan 23 '12 at 18:01

Quintium

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 23 '12 at 18:02

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I normally press Esc .

I don't know of any keyboard shortcut where Esc is the second key press.

answered Jan 23 '12 at 18:02

DaveShaw

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 23 '12 at 18:02

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There aren't many visual studio Chords that end with Esc so just hit Esc it'll say The key combination is not a command but it prevents you from performing a valid chord.

answered Jan 23 '12 at 18:02

Michael Brown

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 25 '14 at 03:37

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You are in Dvorak Keyboard mode in windows. Press Ctrl+Shift to get out of it...

answered Apr 25 '14 at 03:37

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 23 '12 at 18:10

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Another option is to record a no-op macro and assign it to Ctrl-M, Esc. It will say running macro at the bottom quickly and go away.

answered Jan 23 '12 at 18:10

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Why would this be better than having Ctrl-M, Esc unassigned? – Cody Gray - on strike Jan 24 '12 at 03:47
No better, just won't get the msg at the bottom saying unassigned. – Decker97 Jan 24 '12 at 18:10

How do you stop Visual Studio from waiting for the second part of a shortcut-combination?

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