Waiting for second key of chord

Question

I have assigned the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+E to a command. But when I click Ctrl+E, the status bar says Ctrl+E

Answer 1

I came to this question because I had the same problem as the OP, but in the Integrated Terminal. My problem:

I couldn't stop the node server by doing Ctrl+C, because my VS Code was waiting for the "second key of chord"...

I fixed it in the user settings, by unchecking the Allow Chords checkbox.

I answered the more suitable question for me here.