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Re: OS X Lion and "ApplePressAndHoldEnabled"
From: |
Tim Harper |
Subject: |
Re: OS X Lion and "ApplePressAndHoldEnabled" |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:54:56 -0600 |
On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:29 , Chong Yidong wrote:
> Tim Harper <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> In the latest version of OS X Apple has introduced "Press and Hold".
>> In Emacs, it's on by default. This translates to in Emacs, any
>> alphanumeric key, when held down not in combination of any key
>> modifiers, only one key press is emitted, in contrast with the
>> previous behavior where the key is repeated as fast as your system
>> repeat rate is set.
>
> Is this documented anywhere? I find it difficult to imagine that they
> will impose such an incompatible default on all programs.
I can't find any documentation around the setting, any where. I received the
tip from a kind gentlemen on IRC (who then invited me to champion the change
myself, because for employer related reasons he's unable to).
I do know that press and hold is a new feature of OS X Lion. If I hold the
letter i, for example, I get a popup prompting to insert one of the following:
"î ï í ī į ì" .
Terminal.app / MacVim.app don't inherit the new default (maybe the MacVim
developers knew it was coming? I don't know). I guess the apple developers
figured you don't really need to hold down a letter and have it repeat a whole
ton of times, which probably in 99% of use cases, they're right.
Tim