Repeat letters dont work, keyboard?

[umbilical]

why dont work on mountain repeat letters like put "zzzzzzzzzzzz" I need type z by z , whats the stupid idea of dont let us repeat letters? any solution? thanks

 

[talmy]

It's like that because it now allows a shortcut to diacritical marks. You can disable this feature and restore repeating alphabetic characters by typing the following command in Terminal:

 defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

 

[prisstratton]

Or, if you prefer not to use the terminal, you can use one of the tweaking applications:

http://www.itweax.net

http://secrets.blacktree.com

http://tweaksapp.com/app/lion-tweaks/

 

[umbilical]

thank guys, nice for the apps and "hacks" I usually dont like that kinds of things that touch the system but damn I want repeat letters; why apple remove it? I dont get it...

thank you!

 

[nyolc8]

They removed it because of the special characters like áéöő... So for example if you press and hold "o", a mini popup should appear with special "öő" characters.

 

[umbilical]

They removed it because of the special characters like áéöő... So for example if you press and hold "o", a mini popup should appear with special "öő" characters.

yes I note that, but I hate that apple remove things and dont put optional, we can choose if we want somethings or not;

thank I remove that with the command line code

thankssssssssssssssssssss

 

[s0mojo]

Was interested in this also, new to the mac side of things still

 

[Julien]

.....NOW IF APPLE WOULD JUST DISABLE TO CAPS LOCK KEY TOO....

 

[talmy]

.....NOW IF APPLE WOULD JUST DISABLE TO CAPS LOCK KEY TOO....

System Preferences --> Keyboard --> Keyboard --> Modifier Keys. Then you can set the Caps Lock key to something else: Command, Control, Option, or even "No Action".

 

[Julien]

system preferences --> keyboard --> keyboard --> modifier keys. Then you can set the caps lock key to something else: Command, control, option, or even "no action".

I SAID APPLE NOT USER. If left up to the user you get CAPS.

 

[jerryreff]

Keys will not repeat in Yosemite

I have tried all remedies to no avail. It I enter the command in Terminal, it works for the Terminal mode but nowhere else. I even used Tinker Tool to affect a change but that does not fix it either. The problem is when I am using a word processor app or an email, it simply will not repeat the key when held down. This is a DUMB feature from Apple. Make it an option that can be toggled!!!!!!!!
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[talmy]

I have tried all remedies to no avail. It I enter the command in Terminal, it works for the Terminal mode but nowhere else. I even used Tinker Tool to affect a change but that does not fix it either. The problem is when I am using a word processor app or an email, it simply will not repeat the key when held down. This is a DUMB feature from Apple. Make it an option that can be toggled!!!!!!!!
s

Yep, it looks like they removed that capability. Can only speak for myself but I find the new functionality for diacritical marks useful and never had a reason to write a long string of a single alpha character.