Hi Tony, Apple removed the Single Key Repeating 'feature' because (as Peter has mentioned) of the same special characters like áéöő... So for example if you press and hold "o", a mini popup should appear with special "öő" characters. It's like that because it now allows a shortcut to diacritical marks.
You used to be able to disable this feature and restore repeating alphabetic characters by typing the following command in Terminal: defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false But that no longer works in Yosemite. I find the new functionality for diacritical marks useful and can't ever remember having a need to type a long string of a single alpha character. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 7 Jan 2015, at 1:06 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hiya > Talk about confused!!! I couldn't find the FN key for the life of me, bottom > left, where bottom left? Control key, no FN key. Lynette looked on her MBP, > there it is, bottom left. On my iMac it is amongst the other keys up on the > right hand side, ho hum, Lynette: Here it is Ya daft git!! > Problem solved. Where would we be without the "Girls" in our lives? > Thank you Ronni, again. > Love and best Wishes > > Tony > xoxoxo > >> On 6 Jan 2015, at 17:24, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Tony, >> >> I thought I had answered your query. >> Hold down the 'fn' key on the left bottom of your keyboard while you hit the >> key you want to repeat. >> Repeat 1- 111111111111111111111111 >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >>> On 6 Jan 2015, at 4:30 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Wamuggers. >>> >>> Does anyone know how I can get any single key on my KeyBoard to repeat >>> continuously whilst the key is held down?? >>> >>> I asked Ronni quite a while ago,who told me what to do for continuous text >>> and for the single key, for some reason upon updating to YOSEMITE I can’t >>> continually repeat any key whilst holding it down. >>> Ronni has sent an e-mail again with the instructions for repeating >>> sentences, thank you Ronni, but I had kept the notes for doing this, but >>> cannot find the instructions on what to do to use a single key. >>> >>> Thanks all >>> >>> Tony >>> BODDINGTON -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
