Message-ID: --text follows this line-- "Press and hold" is an OS X input method used for entering accented characters if a key is held down (instead of repeating the key). It's not supported in Emacs. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-06/msg00784.html states: "Let's look into making it work properly once people decide to install Lion." That was more than three years ago, and since then two major OS X versions have been released, but unfortunately press and hold is still not supported. It would be great to support this feature to make Emacs more consistent with other apps on OS X. In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of 2014-10-22 on p Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1344 Configured using: `configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.4 --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.4/share/info/emacs --without-dbus --without-gnutls --with-ns --disable-ns-self-contained' Important settings: value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel ns-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process cocoa ns multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 71987 6607) (symbols 48 17377 0) (miscs 40 36 154) (strings 32 9965 4605) (string-bytes 1 263174) (vectors 16 9021) (vector-slots 8 384474 14793) (floats 8 53 103) (intervals 56 179 0) (buffers 960 11))