MacOS – OS X: Shift + Delete = Forward delete annoyance

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Has anyone noticed this strange behavior of OS X El Capitan regarding forward delete? The usual keyboard shortcut for this on keyboards that have no distinct forward delete button is fn + delete, which works on my MacBook Pro 13'' Early 2015 as it should.

Additionally I have a forward delete when holding down shift and delete. This is so annoying because it happens very often while writing larger texts (especially in German where you have a lot of capital lettered words) or programming that this situation occurs.

Does anyone know a way to remap/deactivate forward delete?

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This is a change in behavior in the 10.11.2 beta, build 15C27e. Wether or not this is intentional or a mistake is unclear. But it is infuriating.

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You can do this with Karabiner with a private.xml such as this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <item>
    <name>Forward Delete with ⌃⌫</name>
    <identifier>private.ctrlbackspace</identifier>
    <autogen>
      __KeyToKey__
      KeyCode::DELETE, VK_CONTROL | ModifierFlag::NONE,
      KeyCode::FORWARD_DELETE
    </autogen>
  </item>
</root>

Map screen sleep (ctrl+shift+eject) to F19

As suggested out by Mateusz Szlosek, BetterTouchTool solves this for me where I very simply could set F19 to execute the Sleep Display action.

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Map screen sleep (ctrl+shift+eject) to F19

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