No alphanumeric letters repeat after installing today's Mojave update (10.14.3).
Punctuation characters do.
Anyone else, please?
I do want to be able to use diacritics like à by pressing and holding. Is that perhaps no longer compatible with press and hold to repeat letters?
TIA!
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
Repeating characters was replaced a number of versions ago. You can revert from the accent menu but it's one or the other.
Glad to help.
That's right. ('Pure') alphanumerics (a-Z) do not. Most others do.
I suppose that confirms as well that the keyboard setting (and for that matter the keyboard itself) is as it should be.
Thank you very much!
I must admit that it would be very useful to have… both :-)
I know that if I had to choose, it would be for the diacritics.
Now that I think about it, I'm sure it must have been punctuations that I was repeating (e.g. '--------------' for a 'section break' in a text document) and misremembering.
Your help appreciated!
It's probably possible to toggle between the settings using AppleScript and a shortcut. Outside of my knowledge base I'm afraid.
@dialabrain - thanks for such a quick and helpful reply!
What you must also be saying, then, is that I'm wrong in thinking that repeating alphanumerics 'disappeared' today?
And that I just haven't tried to press and hold an alphanumeric in the hope that it would repeat for some time?
Yes?
No. I'm saying, repeating characters did not just stop today but many years ago. I think around OSX Lion but I'm not positive. There is a terminal hack to bring back repeating characters but then press and hold will noi longer bring up the accent menu.
Thanks! Yes, that's more or less what I was saying too :-)
Just that, I felt sure that I have used repeating alphanumeric characters recently; I must be mistaken -(
I believe there are certain characters that will still repeat. ////////// < Forward slash for example.
Keys don't repeat after update to 10.14.3
