Hey Ronni I only used the repeat function for nothing more than xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as an endearment, personal messaging, or ???????????. You have now answered my question, thank you Ronni, it doesn't work with Yosimite.
Take care, stay safe Tony xoxoxo Tony: Sent from my iPhone. > On 7 Jan 2015, at 14:00, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > 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 <antne...@mac.com> 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 <ro...@mac.com> 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 <antne...@icloud.com> >>>> 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> -- 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>
