Waiting for second key of chord

Question

I have assigned the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+E to a command. But when I click Ctrl+E, the status bar says Ctrl+E was pressed. Waiting for the second key of the chord...".

If I hit the Esc key, I get "The key combination (Ctrl+E, Esc) is not a command."

How do I activate the command that has been assigned to Ctrl+E?

I know that this is the same as the question How do you stop Visual Studio from waiting for the second part of a shortcut-combination? . But the answer given there (hit Esc) does not work for me.

Answer 1

The selected answer is wrong in stating you cannot use Ctrl+E by itself (at least for Visual Studio 2013).

For those who come from a Mac or other OS background where Ctrl+E takes you to the end of the current line (the End key shortcut by default in VS), this is a really frustrating limitation when switching environments.

I found that in Visual Studio 2013 at least, you can remove all the shortcuts that use the Ctrl+E chord (none of which I will ever use) and set the Edit.LineEnd command to Ctrl+E. It just takes a few minutes tracking down the chords to remove (most of them are under the workspace designer).

Answer 2

1. To see which commands are using your keyboard shortcut at the moment, enter it in the "Press shortcut keys:" edit box. Make sure you don't accidentally click "Assign".
2. In the dropdown box "Shortcut currently used by:" you can browse through and manually remove all commands that currently occupy your desired shortcut combination.