How to enable key repeat in Mac OSX 10.7 Lion

Apr 22, 2012 • Bruce Li

After upgrading to Lion, the behavior of holding a key was became characters chooser (eg. [àáâ…] for holding “a”). And this is bothering me.

To re-enable:

Open a Terminal, paste and run: defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
reboot your mac