Using Intellij-Idea 12 on OS X, I have a strange problem: when I keep a letter ([a-z]) key pressed in the editor, the key stroke does not repeat. This is unfortunately a problem since I would like to use the vim plug-in, and to use the keys h,j,k,l to move the cursor around.
Other, non-letter keys do produce repetition when kept pressed. On Ubuntu 12.04 I don't encounter this problem either.
Is this any option thing? Anyone know where to set preferences of key stroke repetition?
It's a system preference not specific to Intellij IDEA:
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
You can change also be more specific and change the behavior for only IntelliJ with the following command. The -g option in the above solution changes it for all applications.
defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
For the 14.x community edition, you may need to use a different URI:
defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij.ce ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
This works for MacOSX 10.10 Yosemite and IntelliJ 13.1.6
I had the same issue on macos 10.12.6 using PyCharm Pro 2017.3, one of JetBrains products. Using danslee and Dao answers, I came up with (replace PyCharm by the name of the application you are using):
/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/Info.plist and looking for the value of the key CFBundleIdentifier. This is the parameter I found:
com.jetbrains.pycharm, it might be different for you,$ defaults write com.jetbrains.pycharm ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true. true will set auto-repeat, false will set no auto-repeat,$ defaults read > defaults_read.txt and look for 'ApplePressAndHoldEnabled' in defaults_read.txt,
