Really?
How often do people actually use key repeat? Whereas if you type accented 
characters a lot the new system is a great improvement. 

Think also of people coming from windows via iPhone 

>From my iPhone 

On 29 Jul 2011, at 20:58, Stephen Watson <[email protected]> wrote:

> It dawned on me today perhaps why the keys don't repeat in Lion - one of the 
> new features is alternate character selection. Prior ti Lion, to get the é 
> character I pressed Option-e followed by e whereas in Lion I simply press and 
> hold e and then tap '2' on my keyboard to select from the result on list. 
> However, if the key repeated then the accented character would not be an 
> option.
> 
> Something needs a rethink, methinks.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Stephen
> 
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