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ijung
ijung

Reputation: 2889

IntelliJ key repeating idea.vim

I just installed IntelliJ CE and IdeaVim plugin.

One small popup asked about key repeating and if I want to make it enabled. But I just clicked "no" without knowing what it is asking about clearly. But it was about the moving keys: h j k l.

I cannot hold down these keys to move my cursor continuously. I've tried to revert this setting but no luck.

Most answers are either defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij.ce ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false or defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false, but no changes.

I am on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and IntelliJ IDEA CE 2016.2.4

Upvotes: 132

Views: 41398

Answers (9)

Daniel Del Rio
Daniel Del Rio

Reputation: 1

I was using PHPStorm and had a few issues getting the above methods to work until I realized that the reference to PHPStorm had to be typed in as PhpStorm. Here is the full command that I used.

defaults write com.jetbrains.PhpStorm ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Upvotes: -1

Craig
Craig

Reputation: 19

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled 0

Upvotes: -1

Rasheed
Rasheed

Reputation: 1

If this command doesn't work defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Use this --> defaults write NSGlobalDomain ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Restart the app you're using like re-open the vs code etc... and it should be working.

To enable back, set to true again and you're good to go.

Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVUwif3DWuU

Upvotes: 0

I'm a frog dragon
I'm a frog dragon

Reputation: 8805

I found this gist for various different Jetbrains IDEs:

Credits go to this: https://gist.github.com/lsd/1e1826907ab7e49c536a

    Community Edition IntelliJ: - defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij.ce ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
    Ultimate Edition IntelliJ: defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
    AppCode: defaults write com.jetbrains.AppCode ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
    PyCharm: defaults write com.jetbrains.PyCharm ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
    Android Studio: defaults write com.google.android.studio ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
    WebStorm: defaults write com.jetbrains.WebStorm ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false *
    RubyMine: defaults write com.jetbrains.RubyMine ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false *

Upvotes: 0

Ben Ogorek
Ben Ogorek

Reputation: 597

@aaronpenne's 2020 comment is too useful to be just a comment. His was the only suggestion that worked:

FYI I just installed IdeaVim and the popup says "You can do it manually by running defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled 0"

Upvotes: 9

Jim Breen
Jim Breen

Reputation: 91

If you've already set the global value with the defaults write -g command (or JetBrains did it for you), it may be necessary to delete the global default before you can use an application-specific default as noted in this SuperUser post.

defaults delete -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled

After I did that and set an application-specific value for RubyMine...

defaults write com.jetbrains.rubymine ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

...I could use IdeaVim in RubyMine and still use the press and hold accent dialog in all other applications.

Upvotes: 3

Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Reputation: 5201

if anyone else was confused what the message from pycharm meant, but lets read it first:

Do you want to enable repeating keys in Mac OS X on press and hold?

what it means is that if you keep pressing the same key it is as if it is pressing it many times (the expected behaviour). That is all.

I might not be a vim expert but I personally wouldn't want the keyboard to act different from what I am used to so I suggest to press yes.

If you are too late and can't fix it do what the other answers suggest e.g.

for Intellij Ultimate edition

defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

for Intellij community edition

defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij.ce ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Upvotes: 1

Chethan Bandi
Chethan Bandi

Reputation: 1120

you can enable key repeating per application

for Intellij Ultimate edition

defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

for Intellij community edition

defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij.ce ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

ref https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206845385-FYI-for-Lion-users-who-use-IdeaVIM

Upvotes: 102

ijung
ijung

Reputation: 2889

it turns out that I need to type this in the mac terminal:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

This is not related with any of vim, intelliJ, etc. It seems that Mac wants to support accent characters by holding the key.

Upvotes: 155

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