Once I’m in an utility corresponding to Firefox, Textedit, BBEdit, Pages and so on. – just about any utility which offers one thing like a textual content entry area -, I discover the next function at work:
Once I press a vocal letter (say i for a second or so, a small window pops up the place I can select between numerous accented variations of this character. Within the case of i, the record incorporates î, ï, í, ī and ì, and typing a quantity from 1 to five selects which of these characters I need to really enter. Once I press an interpunction character (say - or .) and maintain it, automated key repeat begins (--------------........). That is affordable and helpful.
Curiously, Terminal.app (and likewise iTerm2.app) behave differntly, in that they all the time do an automated key repeat. Urgent and holding the i does give me the aforementined choice, however all the time begins to supply a string of i character: iiiiiiii.
Is there a chance to allow the terminal functions to react in the identical approach as these Mac applications utilizing a GUI, when a key’s pressed an held for some interval? I assume that this behaviour is finished contained in the keyboard driver, and due to this fact configurable by the appliance which requests keyboard entry.
I’m conscious that I can enter a few of these characters utilizing a useless key – as an illustration typing ´ and i produces í, however there isn’t any approach I may use with this method a ī or a ï (I take advantage of the Austrian German enter supply).
