<p>I have somehow misconfigured fingers. This leads to a very annoying situation.</p>

<ol>
<li>I select a block of text to copy;</li>
<li>I move the cursor the place where I want to paste the code;</li>
<li>I accidentally press Ctrl+C again instead of Ctrl+V;</li>
<li>My block of copied text is replaced by an empty block;</li>
<li>I have to go back and do it all over again. Grrrrr.</li>
</ol>

<p>Is there any way to disable this behavior, that is to disable copy of empty blocks of text in Visual Studio 2005+?</p>

[{'answer_id': 73989, 'author': 'Magnus Johansson', 'author_id': 3584, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3584', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Press CTRL+SHIFT+V twice.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 74004, 'author': 'John Sheehan', 'author_id': 1786, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1786', 'pm_score': 7, 'selected': True, 'text': "<p>It's not copying an empty block, it's copying the blank line. You can change this setting in Tools > Options > Text Editor > All Languages > 'Apply Cut or Copy Commands to blank lines when there is no selection'</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 74015, 'author': 'Jeremy Wiebe', 'author_id': 11807, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11807', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I\'m using Visual Studio 2008 (but I believe this answer applies to Visual Studio 2005).</p>\n\n<p>Select Tools -> Options.</p>\n\n<p>Navigate to the "Text Editor" node and expand it.  </p>\n\n<p>Expand "All Languages" (or whatever language you want to apply this to) and check the "Apply Cut or Copy commands to blank lines when there is no selection".</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 74034, 'author': 'EndangeredMassa', 'author_id': 106, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/106', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<blockquote>\n  <p>The option that saved my sanity is found in Tools - Options - Text Editor - All Languages - General.  There\'s a checkbox Apply Cut or Copy commands to blank lines when there is no selection.  Unchecking this allowed me to hit Ctrl+C all i want on a blank line without losing the content on my clipboard. </p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/09/28/did-you-know-how-not-to-accidentally-copy-a-blank-line.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Source</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 74064, 'author': 'dcstraw', 'author_id': 10391, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10391', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Go to Tools > Options > Text Editor > All Languages > General</p>\n\n<p>The option on that page is "Apply Cut or Copy commands to blank lines when there is no selection"</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 14822566, 'author': 'FearlessHyena', 'author_id': 724485, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/724485', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>For some reason that option didn\'t work for me (VS2010)</p>\n\n<p>The answer mentioned here where you assign Ctrl+C to the macro worked however <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/108094/disabling-single-line-copy-in-visual-studio">Disabling single line copy in Visual Studio</a></p>\n'}]
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