Seriously no key repeat in Lion?

Having just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks, I thought my keyboard had broke. No key repeat - whaaaaaa???

So now I've applied that Terminal command and I have key repeat back. 🙂 As for the 'Press & Hold' thing, what was wrong with the Option key, which some of us have used forever? á ä â à ø ñ

As someone who also does the same, I cannot reproduce what you are compaining about... could you provide more information? I'm in terminal, I'm in vim and all my keys repeat.

-b

I have noticed it repeats some places, but not others. I created a post about it. For example, typing in this text box allows me to repeat any key, but typing anything into the text box in Skype will not allow me to repeat any key at all. Please keep me updated on this because I also think it's a stupid idea.

I just checked, and it appears I can only repeat certain keys too. One of the keys I pressed earlier might have just been one of the 'selected' repeat keys so I just assumed I could do it all. I can repeat a few keys like yourself. ssss llllll

Rediculous design choice. Who in their right mind at Apple would possibly approve of this?

When you hold down on a character in Lion that has variants, such as e, you will get a menu to choose which version you want, such as éêę. I haven't found a way to turn this off. It looks like only the Terminal supports key repeat now.

I have experienced that as well, but the funny, strange and inconsistent thing is this:

1) Open Safari, and at the end of ANY URL in the address bar press the 'a' key on ur keyboard and keep it pressed.

2) when the 'aàáä' pop up appears, press any of the numbers shown below and you will replace the 'a' you typed with the 'a' identified by the number you selected.

BUT

3) If instead of pressing the number representing the various choices, you use the mouse and click on the letter you want you get something like this: aä

So it appends the selected letter instead of replacing the original 'a' you typed....

No that is messed up!

Nathan Miah wrote:

I just checked, and it appears I can only repeat certain keys too. One of the keys I pressed earlier might have just been one of the 'selected' repeat keys so I just assumed I could do it all. I can repeat a few keys like yourself. ssss llllll

Rediculous design choice. Who in their right mind at Apple would possibly approve of this?

No doubt approval came from the same who approved the removal of colour from most apps, colour and custom icons from the Finder sidebar, a gaudy less functional Address Book and iCal etc...

Removing the key repeat functionality appears to be application dependant so there may be some way to turn it off. In its present form, I agree with you - it's ridiculous.

Yeah, I think you hit the jackpot... it's a Mac not an iPad or an iPhone...

I mean... honestly key repeat is a small thing... but seriously its a HUGE design flaw.

The UI paradigm used for iOS devices cannot be applied to a laptop or stationary machine. Not when it comes to the user interface. The input devices are different and also the needs of the users (using the different devices) are different.

I mean, even launch pad, only my grandma is going to use it... any power user would use QuickSilver or Alfred, but at least launch pad does not interfere with a power user's workflows.

But this key repeat thing does!

For example, even multiple desktops, in 10.6 you could decide how to arrange them 2x2, 3x2, 1x4, etc.. now no, they are just in a sequence... which is just wrong! For me to go from 1 to 4 I have to cycle through 3 different desktops! WHY? I mean, more customization, not less, more freedom, not less. Honestly I am in charge of the machine, not the other way round!

Chad_F wrote:

So far my biggest beefs with Lion are this and the lack of customizability for gestures.

BetterTouchTool

I have no association with the developer, beyond being a user.

Btw, in Pages these are the keys that reapeat and the ones that don't....

aaaaaa

b

cccccccccc

d

eeeeeeeeeee

f

g

h

iiiiiiiiii

j

k

llllllllllllllllll

m

nnnnnnnnnnnnnn

ooooooooooo

p

q

r

sssssssss

t

uuuuuuuuuu

v

w

x

yyyyyyyyyyy

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Anyone have any different result??? and can anyone see a pattern???