Illustrator: is there a way to toggle snapping while moving anchor points?

Question

Situation

While moving anchor points around and…

• you currently have Snap to Point and Smart Guides turned on and

• you momentarily don’t want the points to snap during this operation.

Problem

• You have to exit what you’re doing (moving points) and
• your only choice is to visit View and deselect the particular snapping modes (or alternatively hit their keyboard shortcuts)

which is fairly disruptive.

Question

Is there a way around this?

Any solution would do; workaround, plugin, custom hack… that let's you toggle snapping on and off while you’re moving points.

Answer 1

Sorry, no. There is no way to disable snapping without physically choosing the menu items.

Good feature request though. It should be like Photoshop... Control/right-click to temporarily disable snap.

Answer 2

Hold Crtl+U to disable smart guides, and Alt+Crtl+" to disable snap to point.