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That you can hold down certain keys, like i and o, to access a list of similar characters that aren't found on the keyboard. My 1 year old taught me that one.

JadeNB 6y ago
One can be forgiven for finding this after long years of useage, because it didn't used to be the case. I'm not sure when it was introduced, but it was in a (to this oldster) recent version.
- fedorareis 6y ago
  It was introduced sometime after that feature became standard in the iOS keyboard. So yes, it is a relatively new feature.
frereubu 6y ago
I actually turn that off - https://osxdaily.com/2011/08/04/enable-key-repeat-mac-os-x-lion/ https://osxdaily.com/2011/08/04/enable-key-repeat-mac-os-x-l... - so it's easier to write things like noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
- m463 6y ago
  It's one of the first things I turn off. annoying. I also have repeat set to fastest and delay until repeat the shortest.
- jooize 6y ago
  May not produce the same feel, but there is: defaults write -g NSRepeatCountBinding -string "^u" > This default controls the numeric argument binding. The default is for numeric arguments not to be supported. If you provide a binding for this default you enable the feature. This allows you to repeat a keyboard command a given number of times. For instance “Control-U 10 Control-F” means move forward ten characters. — https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/TextDefaultsBindings/TextDefaultsBindings.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...
foldr 6y ago
There are also easily memorable keyboard shortcuts for common accents in languages that use roman script. E.g. Opt+e followed by any character places an acute accent on that character. Opt+u adds an umlaut, etc. etc.
sgt 6y ago
I've switched that off many years ago so I forgot that's even a thing. In my opinion the best way is to get hold of those characters with the option key. So if you need ñ you can just type option-n + n, or option-o for ø.

JadeNB 6y ago

One can be forgiven for finding this after long years of useage, because it didn't used to be the case. I'm not sure when it was introduced, but it was in a (to this oldster) recent version.

fedorareis 6y ago
It was introduced sometime after that feature became standard in the iOS keyboard. So yes, it is a relatively new feature.

frereubu 6y ago

I actually turn that off - https://osxdaily.com/2011/08/04/enable-key-repeat-mac-os-x-lion/ https://osxdaily.com/2011/08/04/enable-key-repeat-mac-os-x-l... - so it's easier to write things like noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

m463 6y ago
It's one of the first things I turn off. annoying. I also have repeat set to fastest and delay until repeat the shortest.
jooize 6y ago
May not produce the same feel, but there is: defaults write -g NSRepeatCountBinding -string "^u" > This default controls the numeric argument binding. The default is for numeric arguments not to be supported. If you provide a binding for this default you enable the feature. This allows you to repeat a keyboard command a given number of times. For instance “Control-U 10 Control-F” means move forward ten characters. — https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/TextDefaultsBindings/TextDefaultsBindings.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...

foldr 6y ago

There are also easily memorable keyboard shortcuts for common accents in languages that use roman script. E.g. Opt+e followed by any character places an acute accent on that character. Opt+u adds an umlaut, etc. etc.

sgt 6y ago

I've switched that off many years ago so I forgot that's even a thing. In my opinion the best way is to get hold of those characters with the option key. So if you need ñ you can just type option-n + n, or option-o for ø.