How to enable Press-and-Hold keys in iTerm

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Oliver Baum

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Oct 18, 2016, 1:12:31 PM10/18/16
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I frequently use the OSX feature that allows you to hold a key and pick an accented character. 

By default this is turned off in Terminal and I came across the code to enable this which is as follows:
defaults write com.apple.terminal ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

I have tried altering this using the iTerm2 bundle identifier:
defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

However, it doesn't seem to work. Is it possible to enable the accent character picker at all in iTerm? And if not, can I make it a feature request?

Thanks,
Oliver.

George Nachman

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Oct 20, 2016, 3:17:21 PM10/20/16
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I'm not quite sure why it doesn't show up, actually. I think it should be disabled by default, but right now it's off by accident as far as I can tell. I opened an issue to resolve this: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/5261

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Oliver Baum

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Oct 24, 2016, 6:32:57 PM10/24/16
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Cool, thanks for your response and opening an issue. Much appreciated.

- Oliver.

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