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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Holding down a key does not show repeating inputted characters?
Date: 7 Oct 2015 18:49:53 GMT
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On 2015-10-07, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>> > When I hold down a key to repeat showing its character (e.g., z for
>> > zzzzzzzzzz) in Mac OS X v10.10.5, I get a pop-up window showing other
>> > characters. How can I disabled this and have my stuck key to show all if
>> > its character I want? I checked my Keyboard settings and couldn't change
>> > it. The only app that does this correctly is Terminal. Word 2011,
>> > TextEdit, etc. show this issue. :(
>> > 
>> > Thank you in advance. :)
>
>> I thought there as a GUI setting for this but cannot find it off hand.
>
>> Did find this:
>
>>     defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
>
>> Warning, that is from here: <http://goo.gl/lSgE2> and was written for Lion.
>
>> Other sites give the same command, though, and I see no evidence of anyone
>> blowing their computer up with it. :)
>
> What sucks is that what if I want to use this feature? So I have to use 
> this command back and forth in Terminal? :(

You can still repeat a letter - you just have to press the key
repeatedly rather than holding it down.

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