Pasting with Ctrl-V sometimes sends the message instead

[Skip Montanaro]

Am I the only person who experiences this? Sometimes if I've copied a bit of text or a URL (say an eBay link I want to send to someone), when I go to paste it with Ctrl-V, instead of pasting the copied text, it sends the message. This is using Gmail in Chrome on a Linux box. I can't recall if it's happened recently on my Mac (also Chrome, though using ⌘-V), but I think it has.

Thanks,

Skip

[Skip Montanaro]

This still happens to me on a regular basis. I'm convinced that I'm not doing something wrong (like not pressing Ctl-V). When this happens, I frequently see the URL appear briefly in the edit buffer, disappear, then watch the mail get sent.

[Marko Vukovic]

Hey Skip

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:

This still happens to me on a regular basis. I'm convinced that I'm not doing something wrong (like not pressing Ctl-V). When this happens, I frequently see the URL appear briefly in the edit buffer, disappear, then watch the mail get sent.

Are you perhaps a fast typist and perhaps you press Ctrl-v to paste followed by a new line (Enter) and somehow still holding the Ctrl? The fact that you see what you've pasted briefly before it disappears suggests that it is even selected and then disappears when another key is pressed (Enter perhaps).

What happens if you press Ctrl-Shift-v (paste without formatting)?

One trick you could try is to only enter recipients once your message is composed. In th

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[Skip Montanaro]

> Are you perhaps a fast typist and perhaps you press Ctrl-v to paste followed by a new line (Enter) and somehow still holding the Ctrl? The fact that you see what you've pasted briefly before it disappears suggests that it is even selected and then disappears when another key is pressed (Enter perhaps).
> What happens if you press Ctrl-Shift-v (paste without formatting)?
>
> One trick you could try is to only enter recipients once your message is composed. In that​  way, it cannot be sent by accident.

Marko,

Thanks for the suggestions. I am a fairly fast typist. My initial thinking was that I was doing more-or-less what you suggest. I'm pretty certain I'm not accidentally typing Ctl-V Ctl-Enter however, in part because the message doesn't actually contain the pasted text. Accidentally pressing Ctl-Enter should leave the pasted text in the buffer, right? I do use Ctl-Shift-V fairly often. I don't recall ever seeing a message sent that way.

Is there some way I can disable the keyboard shortcut that sends the message? Sort of like removing an Emacs key binding? I never use it anyway, and if that's what is really happening, it's not really a useful key sequence (for me, at least).

Thanks,

Skip