> What do you mean by "hold u"? Holding u just repeats the key, right? No, it does not. Holding u briefly overlays a keyboard of "compositions" for u, and you

> What do you mean by "hold u"? Holding u just repeats the key, right? No, it does not. Holding u briefly overlays a keyboard of "compositions" for u, and you can just press whatever key you want afterwards to pick one, see: https://osxdaily.com/2017/03/22/type-accents-mac-easy/ https://osxdaily.com/2017/03/22/type-accents-mac-easy/ > Why is macosx system is better? Compose keys are mnemonic Because macosx system is not mnemonic. If I need to type a particular accent, which I do very often, and there are O(50) variations of them, I don't have to remember anything. Instead, the computer shows me all the options as a type, and I just pick the one I want. --- If I need to type "u" 42 times for whatever reason, holding u and waiting sucks anyways. Every editor I use has a better more precise way of doing this (on my emacs its just meta+42+u), and worst case I can always just do cmd+space and execute "repeat 42 u" or similar.