For 18 years on a Mac of one variety or other, I've been able to forward delete by hitting fn+delete. Last month I upgraded an old Air to a MacBook Pro/Ventura, that doesn't work. Changing options to "Do nothing" does exactly that. "Change Input Source" just kicks me into another language keyboard. Don't need emojis in work documents.
What am I missing! This is really affecting my productivity and I am regretting upgrading.
MacBook Pro 14″
Thank you so much, dialabrain! fn works the way I need it to now! Having a Greek
keyboard on my old Air must have confused the fn key when I migrated to the Pro
last month. I found out how to undo that easily enough but searching the
Support discussion didn’t turn up anything helpful. I didn’t even notice the
Restore Defaults button, and might not have tried it w/o double-checking with
Apple anyway it implies I’d made the change on purpose and then wanted to
revert.
Another way to achieve forward delete is as follows. This also works in Terminal:
control + d = remove one character at a time to the right of cursor
control + k = remove everything to the right of the cursor
control + u = remove entire line.
fn+delete works for me. First, open System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Modifier Keys and click "Restore Defaults".
You're welcome. Glad to help.
I appreciate it, Randall. Good to know there are alternatives if the fn key suddenly stops working.
'Forward delete' not working in Ventura
