System preferences then click on keyboard. Check your settings noting it says repeat being long, short, or off. System preferences hasn't changed since mac is x came into existance.
It's not turned off.
simsaladimbamba already gave the correct answer.
Yes, call it iOSification, like it or not this is where Mac OS, sorry, just OS X, is going!
And someone is still waiting, me included, for a new Mac Pro...
Huh? This is a brilliant feature for those of us that sometimes need to type in languages with funny letters.
I have to say that seems more useful than retaining the ability to do this:
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Why not just hold down option and shift while typing to get new letters?
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Get all the symbols and have the ability to repeat symbols:
I suppose I have to do it that way as I am still on Snow Leopard.
My only worry was lack of iCloud support on SL, but this helped:
http://sayzlim.net/post/15776938944/sync-icloud-contacts-and-calendar-on-snow-leopard
Interesting, but I am not sure how reliable it can be, especially in the long term. Though an iTools user since its announcement at the MacWorld more than 10 years ago, I have shifted to the Apple iCloud thing only two years ago coming from the Palm environment and I rely massively on calendar synchronization.
That solution is great, but I do not feel comfortable with it so I moved to L and ML: I still have an HD with SL, for my statistic app (InStat) but the die is cast. This is another important move: it's the fourth in 10 years, probably too much. OS 9--> OS X; 68k --> PPC; PPC--> Intel; OS X --> iOSificated OS X
You make it sound like it is a bad thing. Snow Leopard is still the best OS in my opinion.