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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Holding down a key does not show repeating inputted characters?
Date: 7 Oct 2015 20:01:56 GMT
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On 2015-10-07, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> On 10/7/15, 12:40 PM, in article d7laq9FogllU10@mid.individual.net, "Jolly
> Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-10-07, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/7/15, 11:59 AM, in article d7l8cqFogllU3@mid.individual.net, "Jolly
>>> Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2015-10-07, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 10/7/15, 11:35 AM, in article
>>>>> 561565ba$0$49161$c3e8da3$92d0a893@news.astraweb.com, "JF Mezei"
>>>>> <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>>> (note: the change hasn't yet taken effect on Thunderbird)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Have you quit and relaunched it?
>>>> 
>>>> Yep, I just noticed you have to restart applications for them to pick up
>>>> the change.
>>> 
>>> 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. : )
>> 
>>> 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.
>
> Right... but then it is labeled incorrectly and the repeat rate makes no
> sense.

That's why the setting is a hidden preference. Seems like we are talking
in circles. It's an advanced preference that Apple decided not to expose
to GUI users.

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