How to type accented letters...

labashoney wrote:

When I hold down a key to get my accented characters to show it just repeats the letter. I checked system preferences and the key repeat is on. It used to work fine...not sure how to fix.

I don't know the fix to make the pop-up menu return, but in the meantime you can press Control + Command + Space to bring up the Character Viewer, and you can insert your accented character(s) from there.

labashoney wrote:

When I hold down a key to get my accented characters to show it just repeats the letter.

Try going to system preferences/keyboard/input sources and adding a french or spanish keyboard and then restarting.

Launchpad : Other : Terminal.

Copy and paste the following into the Terminal, and press return. Quit Terminal. You may have to log out and back in again for the setting to take. Then, you can just press and hold certain letters (e.g. c, u), and an array of character choices appear. You can click the individual character, or enter its number index to get that character into your text.

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true