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How get holding down letter pop up accents menu in El Capitan?

In OS X Yosemite, I could hold down a letter such as e and get a pop-up menu of accented versions. (In various apps and even in Finder when naming a file.)


This is no longer working in El Capitan (10.11.1).


How fix?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), 3.4GHz Corei7, 16GB, SSD + 2T HD

Posted on Oct 26, 2015 5:42 PM

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Feb 10, 2016 8:13 AM in response to net-buoy

net-buoy wrote:


a) the pop-up was not working

b) post above indicating that the reason the fix does not work in ElCap is the SIP (How get holding down letter pop up accents menu in El Capitan?)


The post suggested it *might* be necessary to disable SIP; and the OP replied that it had worked *without* disabling SIP.

I can confirm that it does work without doing such a dangerous move.

How get holding down letter pop up accents menu in El Capitan?

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