Options for character input in OS X Lion
Apple is steadily adding new options to keyboard entry behaviors in OS X to provide quick access to options and to help prevent common typing mistakes. For instance, in Snow Leopard Apple introduced systemwide autocorrect to fix typos and misspelled words. With OS X Lion, Apple has brought in some additional features and behaviors, including changes to character repeats and quicker access to special characters.
Character repeats
In OS X Lion, while the settings to adjust key repeat rate are still present, key repetition will not work with alphanumeric characters by default. If you press and hold a key to enter a number or letter, then the system will only enter one character; however, if you do the same for punctuation and other symbol characters, then the system will show the old repeating behavior as expected.
These changes were implemented in part to prevent typos, but also to make room for Apple's new special characters menu (see below). Additionally, relatively few people will need to regularly enter long strings of the same repeating alphanumeric character. Nevertheless, if you do need to enter repeats of the same character then there are some ways.
Cut and paste An easy solution without tampering with hidden system settings is to make use of the copy and paste commands. Since pasting is not limited in the same way as character repeats, you can enter one instance of the alphanumeric character you want, then highlight it (press Shift-left arrow to do this quickly) and copy it with Command-C. Then press and hold Command-V to input the character rapidly again.
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If you need special characters and still want to have the old key repeating behavior, then you can use the character or keyboard viewers to implement them. These viewers can be enabled in the Input Sources section of the Language & Text system
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