Basically what the title says. My character picker is gone (when you press and hold a letter). All it does when I press and hold a letter like "a" or "i" just constantly repeats it. This is a pain as I have to do a lot of Spanish work on my computer. How can I get it back?
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Character Picker disabled?
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Try copying and pasting the following command into Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal):
This sets the setting back to the default value (true) and should work if the cause was something setting it to a different value. You'll need to relaunch whatever application you're using for typing after you do this.
If you're typing those characters a lot it might also be faster to learn the keyboard shortcuts for them. For the accented vowels, type option-e followed by the vowel (eg opt-e followed by u gives ú), and for ñ type option-n followed by n.
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defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool trueThis sets the setting back to the default value (true) and should work if the cause was something setting it to a different value. You'll need to relaunch whatever application you're using for typing after you do this.
If you're typing those characters a lot it might also be faster to learn the keyboard shortcuts for them. For the accented vowels, type option-e followed by the vowel (eg opt-e followed by u gives ú), and for ñ type option-n followed by n.
I think you know this but is it enabled in Language & Text Preference Pane>Input Sources?
