Hyper: Press and hold keys on OSX causes suggestions popup

Created on 12 Dec 2016 · 9Comments · Source: vercel/hyper

OS version and name: OSX 10.12.1
Hyper.app version: 1.0.0.1303
Relevent information from devtools _(CMD+SHIFT+I on Mac OS, CTRL+SHIFT+I elsewhere)_: NA
The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Yes

Issue

Just updated to 1.0.0, now when I'm in neovim if i press and hold down the 'L' key instead of repeating the movements, it also flickers the popup to enter 'ł'. It also seems to affect all keys as pressing and holding jkli keys seems sluggish. Was fine before this and is still fine in iterm. See attached gif which captures a subset of the popups flashing

press hold neovim

Source

chrisnojima

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Most helpful comment

Yeah, this is pretty annoying. Solved it by running

defaults write co.zeit.hyper ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

This should be made in to a plugin.

detj on 22 Jan 2017

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All 9 comments

Same issue here. Experienced on the same OS inside normal vim.

For now, you can disable this feature system-wide with the following command:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

jessemillar on 13 Dec 2016

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Noticed this too. Anyone have any ideas as to why this would happen here and not in iTerm? You can also disable this on a per app basis. https://gist.github.com/rastasheep/bfc8266eeb58b899054c

xvalentino on 4 Jan 2017

We could probably use this. Maybe in a plugin? https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/8084

xvalentino on 4 Jan 2017

Yeah, this is pretty annoying. Solved it by running

defaults write co.zeit.hyper ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

This should be made in to a plugin.

detj on 22 Jan 2017

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systemPreferences.setUserDefault from electron can be used to disable ApplePressAndHoldEnabled as @xvalentino pointed out.

However I think it should be part of core rather than a plugin. Accent pop-up is designed for input fields where caret doesn't move when user holds a key. Hyper caret behaviour is different, it always moves, so there's no point to have the pop-up window as it appears and disappears without letting user to select an accent.

roolebo on 12 Mar 2017

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This is still happening with Hyper 2.0 on Mojave. Is there a reason this was closed and abandoned?

sukima on 1 Dec 2018

@sukima This was fixed in 2017 but broke again recently. Looks like @chabou fixed it a few days ago, see https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/3317 This fix should be live whenever v2.1.1 comes out.