Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger 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 20:04:44 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <9d2dnRPZhcVVxIjLnZ2dnUU7-budnZ2d@earthlink.com> <561565ba$0$49161$c3e8da3$92d0a893@news.astraweb.com> <7LydnSqa5I9h5IjLnZ2dnUU7-R2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> X-Trace: individual.net Em1AMtPUlONEsgCN33L5QgJtdDFwpBhKJKIav878h4jifRATQ/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:saVE3vxcWiQaj0/78xN4Ws7mlAA= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:32454 comp.sys.mac.system:82344 On 2015-10-07, Ant wrote: > ... >> > 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)? :/ Lots of hidden preferences have been there since Lion - and lots for even longer. So what? >> > 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. :/ They and you are full of shit. Apple is merging features from OS X to iOS and also features from iOS into OS X, and that's mostly a good thing. Without it we wouldn't have great features like Continuity, Hand-off, and so on. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR