Why are Backspace, Enter, Navigation keys not working while editing any file in Visual Studio?

Question

I am using Visual Studio Extensions, while creating a new solution through extension for the first time, we are only able to type alphabets. Backspace, Enter, Navigation keys are not working while editing any file.
But when we force close the solution, and reopen the editing is working as expected. I've tried various solutions from various forums, but nothing works. Please help me find a solution.

Answer 1

Hi @Apurva Kamshetty, 

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A! 

Which version of Visual Studio are you using? Does it occur in other projects? 

Please reset keyboard mapping scheme by going to Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard > click on ‘Reset’ > OK.

Meanwhile, you can try to repair your Visual Studio.

Sincerely,

Anna

---

If the answer is the right solution, please click "Accept Answer" and kindly upvote it. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment". 
Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.

Answer 2

I am experiencing the same issue (VS 17.8.2). When it happens, any other app is still responding correctly to those keystrokes. Quitting VS and starting over solves the issue temporarily.

Answer 3

I have VS 17.8.3, and it also happens to me. Te restart fix presented previously only endures for one use of space or one enter. Visual Studio is completely unusable now. The reset Keyboard fix provided by @Anna Xiu-MSFT didn't do anything at all.

Answer 4

Same problem here with VS 2022 v17.8.2..

When closing VS I get this confirmation dialog (cf. attached screenshot. So some operation is blocking user input. But I don't see any open dialogs or task.
The only thing I did in this VS session is connect and authenticate to GIT (Azure Devops), which happens in a dialog. Oh and now I remember that this dialog was showing javascript error messages (at least 3 times). Sorry, didn't take a screenshot of those. Maybe it's related to this keyboard issue.

Answer 5

I had this problem (all keys except backspace and enter work). I noticed it was only happening with .rst files. I disabled the restructuredText plugin and restarted vscode and all the keys worked again. When I re-enable the plugin the keys stopped working, even without restarting vscode.

I see this exception in the "window" error log, and nothing in the "restructuredText" error log.

024-05-28 08:10:36.439 [error] [ExtensionListenerError] Extension 'Arjun.swagger-viewer' FAILED to handle event: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'document'): Error: [ExtensionListenerError] Extension 'Arjun.swagger-viewer' FAILED to handle event: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'document')
    at a.value (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:163:20680)
    at o.y (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:82:660)
    at o.z (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:82:730)
    at o.fire (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:82:946)
    at P.$acceptModelChanged (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:153:75620)
    at c.S (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:150:5505)
    at c.Q (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:150:5271)
    at c.M (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:150:4361)
    at c.L (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:150:3440)
    at a.value (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:150:2227)
    at o.y (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:82:660)
    at o.fire (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:82:877)
    at u.fire (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:107:14175)
    at a.value (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:176:8023)
    at o.y (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:82:660)
    at o.fire (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:82:877)
    at u.fire (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:107:14175)
    at MessagePortMain.<anonymous> (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:176:6303)
    at MessagePortMain.emit (node:events:517:28)
    at Object.MessagePortMain._internalPort.emit (node:electron/js2c/utility_init:2:2285)