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May 15, 2013 11:31 AM in response to CCeeeby stedman1,Check: System Preferences - Keyboard - Keyboard tab - Key Repeat = ???
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May 15, 2013 11:32 AM in response to CCeeeby --A--C--,look into your keyboard settings in preferences
play with the sliders until you are satisfied
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May 15, 2013 11:33 AM in response to --A--C--by CCeee,I have done both of these things and nothing changes I have moved the sliders left right in varying degrees and I still can't hold my "e" down :/
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May 15, 2013 11:34 AM in response to CCeeeby stedman1,Can we assume this is on a Mac, not an iPad/iPhone?
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May 15, 2013 11:35 AM in response to stedman1by CCeee,that is correct newly bought macbook pro retina
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May 15, 2013 11:36 AM in response to CCeeeby --A--C--,also have a look into the accessability pane (also in preferences), you find some keyboard settings there too
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May 15, 2013 11:48 AM in response to CCeeeby CCeee,nope nothing there is making it change either this is annoying
I have tried this
http://lifehacker.com/5826055/make-your-keyboard-keys-repeat-properly-when-held- down-in-mac-os-x-lionwether I'm doing it right is debatable
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May 15, 2013 11:53 AM in response to CCeeeby CCeee,even my arrow keys don't move when I hold them down it's a very bad feature imo
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May 15, 2013 12:00 PM in response to CCeeeby Eric Root,Do you have access to another keyboard that you could experiment with?
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
Isolating an issue by using another user account
If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode. Shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application unistaller. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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May 15, 2013 2:03 PM in response to CCeeeby William Lloyd,Keys like 'e' won't repeat. With Mountain Lion, it now makes it easy for you to create accented letters like è é ê ë ē ė ė, in this mult-language world ;-) I don't know how to revert to auto-repeat.
Arrow keys, however, *should* repeat. It works fine for me.
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May 15, 2013 2:53 PM in response to CCeeeby Barney-15E,Why don't keys repeat? Because nobody wants to read your "weeeeeee" and "yaaaaaaay" messages.
You can change the behavior back to repeating with this command in Terminal:
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
Change false to true to change it back.
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Aug 7, 2013 2:50 PM in response to Barney-15Eby playerzero,but we all want to read barney's smartass comments.
btw, the terminal solution mostly works for me, but now every once in a while all keys/trackpad will stop responding and just repeat the last key i pressed 20 or so times, even though i'm not holding it. this may or may not be related, but something to keep an eye out for if you use the terminal fix. i changed it back becuase the random erroneous repetionnnnnnnnnnnnnnn was more annoying than having to press the key multiple times when i want it.
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Jan 14, 2014 10:01 PM in response to Barney-15Eby Mac OS 9000,This worked for me, thanks. It was so dumb for them to remove key repeating without having a real option to enable it. Come on, nobody cares about typing ê and stuff.
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Feb 15, 2014 1:04 PM in response to Mac OS 9000by Jo Desmet,Well I use to care more, but now the auto-correction stuff does so nice a job that a word like België still comes out fine ... and hey I am a vi user ... you know ... h-j-k-l ... same like arrow keys ...