Hitting the Delete key twice removes three characters.

Avatar
Mrobayo
Created

Hey Jetbrains team, I really love my Pycharm IDE. But to be honest, I'm getting crazy with delete key behavior. When I press the delete key twice to remove 2 characters, it removes 3 characters. I tried with other apps, but this case only happens on PyCharm. Please, I really appreciate it if you could help me. 

(I have a MacBookPro with Ventura OS)

Votes

1

Share

3 comments
Avatar
Mdassow
Created

I'm having this same issue. Is there a fix? 

0
Avatar
Miguel Monteiro
Created

Please create a new bug report on Youtrack and provide the IDE logs from Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data

Also, if possible share a screencast reproducing the behavior

0
Avatar
Otanuki
Created

Had this problem with IntelliJ in MacOS Sequoia.

Google AI showed me this solution:

Step-by-Step Fix

  1. Open IntelliJ.
  2. From the main menu, go to Help > Edit Custom Properties (if prompted to create a new file, select yes).
  3. Add the following line to the file:
    com.jetbrains.use.old.keyevent.processing=true
  4. Save the file and restart the IDE.

Which sources to this link

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/projects/GO/articles/SUPPORT-A-1689/MacOS-The-shortcuts-work-unexpectedly-after-2017.1-update

Restarted IntelliJ and it worked. Restarted the computer, still works. Hope this finally fixes it.~

Also fixed a problem I had with selecting multiple rows by double clicking Option, then pressing the down arrow. It would only allow me to select 3 rows, now I can grow the selection further.

 

Update: Today (07/2026) the issue came back, changed the above config to false, restarted, and it fixed it. But then, changed it to true, restarted and it still works. Not so sure this was the fix after all.

0

Please sign in to leave a comment.