Key repeat not working on MacOS

[metalelf0]

I'm currently on MacOS 11.1 and the key repeat isn't working: holding a key only sends a single char event. Not a big deal, it's like a "hardcore mode" built in, but some users might find it useful :)

Keep up the great work!

[smolck]

@metalelf0 Hello, thanks for the issue! This is something I have actually noticed myself, but I haven't taken the time to look into it yet. Hopefully I'll be able to do so soon!

[smolck]

Hmm, so after some further looking into it, I think this is actually a macOS preferences thing. If you go into System Preferences > Keyboard, you can change the values for Key Repeat and Delay Until Repeat to what you want.

That is system-wide though. There might be a way to do it on an application-specific basis, but I'm new to macOS and so wouldn't know; regardless, I think this can be closed, since this isn't an uivonim issue? Unless I'm mistaken?

[metalelf0]

Hmm, my system settings are already on very fast keyboard repeat, so it shouldn't be related. I'll try to look into this as well and I'll let you know if I find anything relevant.

[metalelf0]

Have you already seen https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/pull/1849/files ? I'm no js/electron dev, but this seems related.

[smolck]

So, based on that PR (which I had not seen, so thank you for mentioning it) and if I understand correctly, I'd need to use different events (or change up some logic) to get keypresses in normal mode so holding a key down repeats as expected, but when in insert mode the hold dialog appears as intended. This may or may not work/be feasible though, so I'll have to try it out and go from there.

For the time being though, you can run this command as a workaround:
$ defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Of course, having to do that for a single application to work as desired is not ideal, so hopefully there's a straightforward solution (likely based on the one in that PR).

[xukai92]

defaults write com.uivonim.uivonim ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false should do it for a single app