Rhino 8 - Deletes geometry with backspace key

Hi all,

When using the backspace key in Rhino 8 -sometimes- it deletes the selected geometry. This makes it very easy to accidentally delete geometry when erasing commands in the command line.

Is this intentional or is this a bug? If it is intentional, is there a way to disable this feature?

Intentional. The backspace key has always worked as Delete if objects are selected and the focus is in the Rhino window.

The problem in V8 is that Rhino sometimes gets confused as to where the focus is between the main window, the command line, the panels, etc.

Not sure if I follow what you are describing. I tried the following:

Select an object and hit BS: works
Select an object and move mouse cursor to a panel, hit BS: works
Select an object and move mouse cursor to a panel, change a setting e.g. a checkbox, hit BS: object does not get deleted, same as in Rhino 7
Select an object and move mouse cursor to command line, hit BS: works
Select an object and move mouse cursor to command line, click, hit BS: works

The main difference I see with Rhino 7 is that once you click there in a panel to change something, you can only get focus back to the viewport by clicking there, whereas in Rhino 8 hitting the Esc key brings focus back to the views and BS works again to delete the object.

Interesting.
Now, after a quarter of a century, I’m learning that Backspace for Delete works.
Never tried that.
I only knew Del.

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Then that change from V7 to V8 somehow leads to this accidental behavior, directly or indirectly.

In V7 this did not happen, if there’s a way to roll back to how it was before that would be nice, as long as it doesn’t affect any new features. Thanks for the support.

Regards,
Gonzalo.

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Hi Gonzalo - Backspace is Delete in V7 as well.

-Pascal

And V6 and V5… I tested all of them.

Maybe it is just me realizing this quite late in my career :sweat_smile:

I’ll check out if there’s something different and let you know.

Thank you.

Now I know why Backspace instead of Del is only partially useful.

When the “Select Object” menu comes up, Del works without interaction with the menu.
Not so with Backspace.

I’m having the same experience. I never accidentally deleted objects with the backspace before V8. Would love to turn off backspace delete!

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On a Mac the backspace key is labelled Delete. When i swapped to Macs many moons ago it was an initial source of frustration, now used to it.