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How to enable keyboard repeat on a Mac

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Mar 15, 202612824 views

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On a Windows machine, pressing and holding a keyboard key results in the character being repeated. For example, if I press and hold q for a few seconds, I end up with the following: qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq Similarly, I can press and hold the Backspace key to delete multiple c…

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defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0

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