# Can't examine and pick up items with the 'e' key, which may take less keystrokes

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**Created:** [November 6, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cant-examine-and-pick-up-items-with-the-e-key-which-may-take-less-keystrokes/27276 "2021-11-06T02:19:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 9:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cant-examine-and-pick-up-items-with-the-e-key-which-may-take-less-keystrokes/27276/4 "2021-11-06T09:35:46Z")

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> [@AcidAntOnAMinefield](#):
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> I personally never had any issues using it, never heard of any bugs/glitches or crashes related to that particular function either nor have ever seen anyone (youtube, twitch) having issues with it as well; not in the past, nor recently.

Here’s an example of [bug](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/autodoc-bug-when-an-item-is-on-the-machines-tile/25940) with pickup-through-examine-menu mechanics. And I personally had to make a rather ugly [workaround](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/47612) to fix the bug. And I assure you, there are a lot of other bugs related to this mechanics which making picking up items from the examine menu badly compatible.

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