Q: Keyboard not repeating when key held down.
How can I get my wireless keyboard to repeat letters when the key held down e.g. 1000000000000000000000.
Seems to be a common fault from what I read.
Regards, John
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
Posted on Feb 4, 2016 7:31 AM
Hi John,
not a fault, for Apple this is a feature supporting easy use of accented characters and the behaviour of your keyboard depends on the application your using.
More information is here:
How to type accents, emoji, and symbols on your Mac - Apple Support
Especially the section "Repeat a character" describes what is annoying you, I think. But it's exactly like it's described therein. For example in Text Editor you can't type and hold the letter "a" to get repeated aaaaaa…, but in Terminal it'll work.
I agree that copying the key to the clibboard and use Commad-V to insert it repeatingly is not a very satisfying solution. Sounds more like a workaround.
Regards, Lars
Posted on Feb 4, 2016 8:02 AM