Arduino ‘Settings’

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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I tried to type ‘sizeof()’ in an Arduino sketch, however when I clicked on the ‘z’ button, I had a new tab pop up labelled as ‘settings’ I now cannot type any word that has a ‘z’ in it, as this tab keeps popping up! Anybody know how to stop this happening?

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Where are you seeing this problem ?

Is it in the online IDE or the desktop IDE and, of so, which version of the IDE are you using ?

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Hi UKHelibob

I noticed this yesterday whilst writing a sketch in the Arduino IDE V2. (latest version) desktop, it seems like a shortcut, anyway hope you can help. :slight_smile:

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Where did you see this button ?

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It’s the normal ‘z’ button on the PC keyboard, when I type any word with a ‘z’ in it, the IDE produces another tab within the sketch with ‘user’ ‘workspace’ settings etc etc…

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Hi @anon76886697. It sounds like you might have created a custom keyboard shortcut for the Z key.

Please try this:

  1. Select File > Advanced > Keyboard Shortcuts (or Arduino IDE > Advanced > Keyboard Shortcuts for macOS users) from the Arduino IDE menus.
    The "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab will open in the Arduino IDE window.
  2. Type z in the "Search keybindings" field of the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab.
  3. Check the "Keybinding" column of the list of shortcuts to see if one of the keybindings is Z.
  4. If one of the shortcuts does have that keybinding, hover the mouse pointer over that row in the search results.
    A counter clockwise arrow icon ("Reset Keybinding") will appear at the left side of the row.
  5. Click the icon.
    A "Reset keybinding for ..." dialog will open.
  6. Click the "OK" button in the dialog.
  7. Click the X icon on the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab.
    The tab will close.

After doing that, you should not experience this unexpected appearance of the "Settings" tab anymore.

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Topic moved to the dedicated IDE 2.x section of the forum.

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Thanks for the reply, at work at the moment but will try when I get home later :slight_smile:

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Yes! Found the issue and corrected it, and also found the culprit :grin:

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Congratulations on finding a solution! I'm glad it is working now. Thank you for taking the time to post an update.

Regards,
Per

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