Strange typing problem

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When I type a letter “v” in Drafts (and only in Drafts), it does not insert a “v”. Instead, an alert-type box pops up with a chime sounding like some Drafts Action, saying “Select All”. It then disappears. Nothing gets selected, but I am unable to type any word with a lowercase v in it. I have to type uppercase, then change case!

I suspect I installed some action that is treating “v’ like a keyboard shortcut, but I’ve gone thru the lists of actions I have (dozens) and looked at the keyboard shortcuts that are assigned and can’t find any with “v’.

Anyone have any ideas that might help me get rid of this problem?

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Any chance you are using a smart keyboard? I find that sometimes my command key gets (invisibly) stuck and so a normal “v” ends up being interpreted as command-v.

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I doubt that’s it. The fact that this occurs ONLY in Drafts, every time, and switching to Notes, say, the v key works as it should every time.

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You could always create a new action and set its trigger key to v.

I think Drafts would indicate if there was a conflict you’ve missed—and tell you the name of the conflicting action.

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Look in the log. It lists the actions that have been run on a draft. That should tell you which action is being triggered by pressing “v”.

I can’t imagine that you have tried to live with this for long so I strongly suspect that it will be one you have installed/modified recently.

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On iPad you can hold down the command key to get an overlay of all keyboard shortcuts to find it. On Mac, browse in the “Actions” menu in the main menu - not ideal, but should help locate it.

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:grinning: The log! That did it; an action titled SelectAll had “v” for a shortcut. I may have accidentally set that. Anyhow, I changed it and now I can use “v” again! Thanks. I’d never looked into the log before; what a useful feature!

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