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This is a duplicate of a previous question (linked below), but the previous answer no longer works.

Every once in a while when editing a formula, I want to add a parenthesis at the beginning of the line by pressing Shift9 to get (. However, I will accidentally press Shift8 instead, which stands for *, and the whole line gets converted to some weird rich text with a small solid red square at the beginning of the line.

I don't know what that is for, but I never want to do it and I want to disable whatever is going on; it effectively means I have to delete the line and start again because I don't know how to undo it. How can I disable this keyboard shortcut?

I asked this in a previous question (Turn off keyboard shortcut) and received an answer. Everytime mathematica updates, it resets the defaults to this annoying behavior. Previously, I have just been able to follow the answer there (again) and sort out the problem. Now, however, with 14.2 installed, the previous solution no longer works. In particular, when I create the "NoItems.nb" file as described there and set it to be the default, it changes all notebooks to some text only page which certainly is not what I want to do. Any help for an updated version of that answer would be appreciated.

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    $\begingroup$ Please at least explain the problem itself in this question, so people can understand your problem without visiting another question. "what I consider mathematica's most annoying default shortcut" is not descriptive enough. $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 20 at 13:12
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    $\begingroup$ What not just enter the shortcut for Undo after typing the wrong entry? $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 20 at 17:33
  • $\begingroup$ @BobHanlon Because that is annoying, especially if I have already typed multiple characters before noticing. $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 20 at 21:36
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    $\begingroup$ In Windows, if you have used shift-8 to start an entry formatted as bulleted, you can convert it immediately to input format using alt-9 without losing what you have typed. $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 23 at 2:12

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