ctrl-shift-V behaving like ctrl-V

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For ages I've been using ctrl-shift-C to copy a group style and ctrl-shift-V to paste it to another group. But recently ctrl-shift-V is doing the same as ctrl-V. Can somebody confirm if this is the case for them too? I'm on NR 4.0.9.

Suspiciously I've also got autohotkey running, but it's not tinkering with those keys, and I've had it running for ages too.

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Can you explain what a group style is please

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Group style is the colour, background etc. There is a builtin action to copy the style properties of a group and “paste” them into another group. Not aware of any changes to the keyboard handling that would have changed things in this area.

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And just to confirm, I am selecting the new group first, and the keyboard settings do reflect ctrl-shift-v:

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Hi.

Firstly, this works fine for me in Node-RED 4.1.0 on Windows + Chrome.

  1. What OS and what browser are you using?
  2. Have you tried another browser? or another computer/different OS?
  3. Do you get the popup stating style was copied when you press CTRL-SHIFT-C?
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  4. If you map the shortcuts to something else like ALT-SHIFT- does it work?
  5. If you map the shortcuts back to CTRL-SHIFT- does they start working?
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Yeah I just span up a 3.1.10 version and that's doing the same thing, so it must be something at my end. I'll try a different PC.

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I used Chrome Remote Desktop from the laptop to another PC using the logic that if it was the laptop it would continue doing it with remote desktop, but it didn't. It worked there. Time for a reboot perhaps.

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Given it's clearly only me on this laptop this can be ignored. I must have some other software doing something (time for a virus scan). But to answer the questions...

  • What OS and what browser are you using?
    Windows 10, Chrome

  • Have you tried another browser? or another computer/different OS?
    Yes - it works

  • Do you get the popup stating style was copied when you press CTRL-SHIFT-C?
    Yes

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  • If you map the shortcuts to something else like ALT-SHIFT- does it work?
    Yes

  • If you map the shortcuts back to CTRL-SHIFT- does they start working?
    No

I'd be happier if all the ctrl-shift keys didn't work - weird that it's just this one. It stopped working a couple of weeks ago, so I don't really remember what was going on then.

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I have a feeling something system wide has hijacked this on your laptop

Perhaps related: Reddit - The heart of the internet ?

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It has the same issue in Firefox and incognito in Chrome. And interestingly with your 'related' link, I tried it in Word and it works as it shuold there - red text copied then produces red text with ctrl-V, and black (ie. default) text with ctrl-shift-V.

So it's not totally dependent on NR because it works from another machine, and it's not totally dependent on my laptop because it works in another app. I give up. It's the universe telling me to upgrade my laptop because it's 4 years old.

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Isn't this the culprit ? often remote desktop software have their own shortcuts, especially when it comes to copy/paste.

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No - normally I'm not using Remote Desktop, I was just trying it to see if it was related to only my laptop. When using Remote Desktop from my laptop I do not see the issue, whereas with my laptop directly I do. Last night I updated from Win10 to 11 (keeping apps), and it's still not working.