Friday, July 18, 2008 1:35 PM InfinitiesLoop

Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Lately I've been using a laptop more often than a desktop to work in Visual Studio, and of course like most laptop keyboards, the keys are jammed close together. The most annoying thing I keep doing by mistake is hitting F1 instead of Escape, which of course begins the not-so-quick process of bringing up help. Every time I do it, I sigh, wait, and close it.

No longer... realizing I can just disable F1 has made my day.

F1HelpBefore

F1HelpAfter

Now I can hit escape without fear.

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# re: Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Friday, July 18, 2008 4:53 PM by AndrewSeven

Did you consider calling the post "Visual Studio Tip:  Escape without fear"

:D

I mapped F1 to Help:About a few weeks ago after a failed escape. ;)

# re: Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Friday, July 18, 2008 4:56 PM by InfinitiesLoop

Escape without fear would have been way better. The readers are already caching it, so I'll live with the boring title :)

# re: Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Friday, July 18, 2008 5:35 PM by Ex

Great, F1 is for pussies :)

# re: Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Friday, July 18, 2008 5:57 PM by clanaota

i have f1 bring up clippy who tells me it looks like i'm writing a singleton pattern and if i would like to use a template.

# re: Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Friday, July 18, 2008 6:05 PM by InfinitiesLoop

Clippy!

en.wikipedia.org/.../Clippy

You gotta see these:

www.youtube.com/watch

# re: Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Friday, July 18, 2008 8:07 PM by ee

Simple idea. Good idea. I think of them as N - Minute mistakes: Accidental clicks or keystrokes that are going to subtract N minutes from your effective coding time.

@clanota: heheh...clippy the coder

# re: Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Saturday, July 19, 2008 7:12 AM by Andrei Rinea

I work for the last 12 month on a laptop and I got annoyed so much of the fact that the keys are jammed one into the other that I got an external USB keyboard and plugged it in.

Try an external keyboard!

# re: Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Saturday, July 19, 2008 1:23 PM by avrashow

Great tip. More than once I've regretted pressing F1 for help on some highlighted class or keyword and waiting minutes until visualstudio says it has no idea what the item  is.

# re: Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Monday, July 21, 2008 6:11 AM by Vladimir Milev

# re: Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:07 PM by John A. Davis

Yeah, but what are you using Esc for?

Be nice to know so I could use it too instead or besides F1

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# re: Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!

Sunday, August 31, 2008 7:05 PM by hardhitter

yeah often i do the similiar mistake when i press escape i accidently press the f1 key. thanks any way....................

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