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Re: OS X Lion and "ApplePressAndHoldEnabled"
From: |
Tim Harper |
Subject: |
Re: OS X Lion and "ApplePressAndHoldEnabled" |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:22:39 -0600 |
> 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
I've added the work-around to the wiki. I suppose it can saturate there until
the community decides to include it. I speculate there will be a whole wave of
Emacs users asking this question once OS X Lion is released.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MacOSTweaks#toc7
Tim