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From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant)
Subject: Re: Holding down a key does not show repeating inputted characters?
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> > Overall the feature seems half-baked. The options in the keyboard
> > preferences are wonky and incomplete, and needing to relaunch apps seems
> > poorly done.

> It's a hidden setting for a reason, sure. : )

And it has been thers since 2011 (Lion)? :/


> > Not a big deal given how rarely you would change it, but the idea of having
> > SOME setting in the preferences panel that do not even make sense unless you
> > change a setting in the command line is weird.

> To be fair, the repeat speed setting does make sense with special
> characters enabled - it controls how long you have to press the key to
> see the special characters menu.

From what I read online, Apple is trying to make it like iOS. :/
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