Change Shift+Backspace to be a back-delete rather than a forward-delete

Question

On a Mac, if you hold shift and press the backspace key, it performs a forward-delete (the same as pressing "delete" on a non-Mac keyboard). Is there any way to change this to just be a regular backspace?

Solution

Ok I'm stupid.

I have DoubleCommand installed, and I, for some reason, enabled the "shift+delete acts as forward delete" command. Apologies.

Comments

[nickf]

Just to be clear, "don't hold shift" isn't really what I'm looking for...

[Julian]

I'm dying of curiosity, why would you want this?

[nickf]

when programming. Say I'm typing Entity.DELETED but I get to Entity.DELTE.. to fix the mistake, you have to release shift and then press it again afterwards. I know it sounds silly, but it's a real PITA when shift-backspace deletes the line-ending and then starts deleting other things you didn't want.

[fideli]

What keyboard are you using? On my MacBook to get a forward delete I need to hold Fn-delete. That is, typically it is ⌫ but with Fn I get ⌦. Are you saying that ⇧⌫ gets you ⌦?

[nickf]

@fideli "Are you saying that ⇧⌫ gets you ⌦?" exactly. This happens with my external Windows keyboard, as well as the built-in MacBook keyboard.

[nickf]

@Daniel: It is US.

[HikeMike]

@nickf: Does the keyboard viewer (see my answer) also show that Shift turns backspace into delete? Also see my third paragraph, does it happen in all applications or just your editor?

[nickf]

@Daniel - see my answer below. I'm quite clearly an idiot today. Thanks for your help anyway.

[HikeMike]

You should accept your own answer, so the question doesn't show up as unanswered.