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User profile for user: VyacheslavS
VyacheslavS Author
User level: Level 1
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Forward delete by shift+delete buttons

How to do without resorting to third-party software setup Forward delete by pressing shift+delete buttons?

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.5

Posted on Sep 5, 2023 1:37 AM

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User profile for user: PRP_53
PRP_53
User level: Level 10
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Sep 5, 2023 1:46 AM in response to VyacheslavS

Mac keyboard shortcuts - Apple Support (CA)


  • Option-Delete: Delete the word to the left of the insertion point.
  • Control-H: Delete the character to the left of the insertion point. Or use Delete.
  • Control-D: Delete the character to the right of the insertion point. Or use Fn-Delete.

➡️ Fn-Delete: Forward delete on keyboards that don't have a Forward Delete key. Or use Control-D. ⬅️

  • Control-K: Delete the text between the insertion point and the end of the line or paragraph.



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User profile for user: Tom Gewecke
Tom Gewecke
User level: Level 10
118,578 points

Sep 6, 2023 2:42 AM in response to VyacheslavS

VyacheslavS wrote:

I still hope that Apple will add customization of this option, since only for this i need to install third-party software, which has full access to the keyboard, which is not safe.

To ask Apple to add this, you can use


Product Feedback - Apple


You might also want to ask your question at


https://apple.stackexchange.com/


Personally I've never heard of safety problems caused by the normal 3rd party software used for this kind of thing.


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User profile for user: VyacheslavS
VyacheslavS Author
User level: Level 1
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Sep 5, 2023 10:43 PM in response to PRP_53

Thank you.

  1. Of all the above, everything works only if you use the English keyboard layout. I have to work with several languages, it doesn't work there.
  2. It is impossible to press with one hand Fn-Delete. This is the main reason why this combination will never become the main one.
  3. Option-Delete is cool, but solves a completely different problem.


Intuitively, it is more understandable when Shift+Delete is used for Forward delete, while it can be pressed with one hand. I still hope that Apple will add customization of this option, since only for this i need to install third-party software, which has full access to the keyboard, which is not safe.


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