why when I hold the "e" key down and various other keys it doesn't just repeat the letter?? and how do I MAKE it repeat the letter??
can anyone help me? I tend to use my letters in that fashion a lot
Weeeeeee for excitement
yaaaaaay etc etc
whilst I respect it's not a lot of effort to press the button a few times I do prefer just having to press and hold :/
paasiaw wrote:
sorry how exactly should I input the command in terminal.. cause it's telling me 'command not found'
If you are trying to type it in, don't. Just copy and paste what CompilerChip posted.
If you still get the error, I don't know what is wrong.
Check: System Preferences - Keyboard - Keyboard tab - Key Repeat = ???
look into your keyboard settings in preferences
play with the sliders until you are satisfied
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 :/
Can we assume this is on a Mac, not an iPad/iPhone?
that is correct newly bought macbook pro retina 🙂
also have a look into the accessability pane (also in preferences), you find some keyboard settings there too
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-lion
wether I'm doing it right is debatable
even my arrow keys don't move when I hold them down it's a very bad feature imo
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.
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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
why don't keys repeat on OSX 10.8.3
