Re: OS X Lion and "ApplePressAndHoldEnabled"

[Tim Harper <timcharper@gmail.com>]

> I can't find any documentation around the setting, any where. I received the tip from a kind gentlemen on IRC (who then invited me to champion the change myself, because for employer related reasons he's unable to). 
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> I do know that press and hold is a new feature of OS X Lion.  If I hold the letter i, for example, I get a popup prompting to insert one of the following: "î ï í ī į ì" .
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> Terminal.app / MacVim.app don't inherit the new default (maybe the MacVim developers knew it was coming? I don't know).  I guess the apple developers figured you don't really need to hold down a letter and have it repeat a whole ton of times, which probably in 99% of use cases, they're right.
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> Tim

I've added the work-around to the wiki.  I suppose it can saturate there until the community decides to include it.  I speculate there will be a whole wave of Emacs users asking this question once OS X Lion is released.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MacOSTweaks#toc7

Tim