Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, Jaguar Edition, The

Keyboard Repeat Rate

You can control a couple of features on your keyboad through the Keyboard system preferences. To get the “pane” shown below, click once on the System Preferences icon (shown to the left) that you’ll find in the Dock. Then click once on the Keyboard icon (also shown to the left).

In the Dock, click once on this icon to open System Preferences.

In the System Preferences pane, click once on this icon.

Every key on the Macintosh keyboard will repeat, meaning if you hold the key down it will continue typing that character ...