I agree Jason - I rarely use the key repeat feature and the accented option à la iOS is much more useful. The point I was making was that given that there is no (simple) option provided by Apple for using the key repeat, then what on earth is the point of them providing two options in System Preferences > Keyboard to control this non-existent feature?
[I just noticed that there is an option in the Keyboard settings to reconfigure the modifier keys! Now that would really mess with someone's head if they didn't know!] Stephen On 29 Jul 2011, at 22:58, Jason Davies wrote: > 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 >> >> The only completely consistent people are the dead. - Aldous Huxley >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > Britain will lead the world towards combating climate change. He unveiled a "revolutionary step" ... binding the UK to a 60-per-cent cut by 2050. - Tony Blair, March 2007 but ... Mr Darling will announce a multi-billion-pound strategy to widen many of Britain's largest and busiest motorways, including the M25, M11, M1 and M42, to as many as 12 lanes wide. - July 2003 ... the growth the government foresees will require "the equivalent of another Heathrow every 5 years." (Select Committee on Environmental Audit, March 2004) The prime minister said the British government would continue to do all it could to support Airbus. - November 2006 leading to ... Doublethink:- The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. - George Orwell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
