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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: 8 Oct 2015 00:35:44 GMT
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On 2015-10-08, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-10-07 14:59, Jolly Roger wrote:
>
>> Yep, I just noticed you have to restart applications for them to pick up
>> the change.
>
> One would think that key repeat would be a very low level, keyboard
> driver feature, and a change behaviour at the driver level would kick in
> for all apps.

I wouldn't think that at all. Speak for yourself. : )

> I guess when a GUI app sets up a connection to accept keyboard events,
> it reads configs and sets up a whole bunch of variables that determine
> behaviour of keyboard when keys are press within focus of the app's
> window(s).

Apps don't have to do any of that, since Apple's APIs take care of
everything automatically.

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