Mac OSX Lion – keyboard trick

Jul 26, 2011

In the 1970/80s you needed auto repeat on your keyboard for all sorts of unix type things. But on your Mac it probably isn’t used all that much. It is faster to type a few characters like “zzzzzzz” copy, then paste multiple times. Much quicker.

In Mac OSX Lion, auto repeat has been replaced with something quite useful. Pressing a letter on your keyboard and holding now gives: