No key repeat

[badpx]

I use smart keyboard with iPadOS beta5, it's can't be continuously input when long press any key.

[tbodt]

Works for me on beta 6.

[bao3]

@tbodt I could confirm this issue . I’m using smart keyboard with iPad Pro , iPad OS version 13.5 , the latest iSH App .

from iPad OS 13.3 , I found iSH could not repeat any keys ,except spacebar .

[bao3]

@tbodt I could confirm this issue . I’m using smart keyboard with iPad Pro , iPad OS version 13.5 , the latest iSH App .

from iPad OS 13.3 , I found iSH could not repeat any keys ,except spacebar .

UPDATE:

Numbers and Alpha bet never repeat , but symbol key and Arrow key could repeat correctly .

[micdah]

Could this be turned into a setting, so key-repeat could be turned on for all keys?

Use case examples could be vim where h,j,k,l are used for navigation for example.

[tbodt]

Looks like it broke at some point. It's supposed to always work, but it doesn't work for me now.

[kuochang]

Same problem here! Numbers and alphabet never repeat. As a vim users, it’s important to have h,j,k,l repeated for navigation.

[SamHep0803]

Can also confirm, mostly everything other then the alphanumeric keys will repeat.

[francoisvignon]

as a vim user too, virtual arrow keys are repeated :-)

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François

Le 5 déc. 2020 à 04:34, kuochang notifications@github.com a écrit :

 Same problem here! Numbers and alphabet never repeat. As a vim users, it’s important to have h,j,k,l repeated for navigation.

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[tbodt]

This broke in iOS 13.4, not-coincidentally the same version UIKey was introduced. The best fix I know of is to use NSTimer to repeat the handling of raw keypresses.

[riverful]

This broke in iOS 13.4, not-coincidentally the same version UIKey was introduced. The best fix I know of is to use NSTimer to repeat the handling of raw keypresses.

iSH team has any plan for fixing it? I have same problem with Apple Magic Keyboard, and it would be perfect for me as terminal program except for this.

[biao-biao]

Still no key repeat in IOS 14.5.1

[emkey1]

This is most likely Apples fault. Apparently in newer versions of their OS's holding down a key will popup a sub window. If you look in the lower left hand corner of the attached screenshot you will see what I mean.

This is iSH running on my M1 MacBook Air.

This window does not popup when iSH runs in iOS, but I suspect this is the issue.

Changing the behavior of holding down a key is sub optimal, but Apple does what Apple does.

I'm not sure if there is a workaround. I'll post an update here if figure something out.

[tbodt]

There is a workaround, which is to implement key repeat manually by manually handling keypresses. I haven't had the time to implement this yet, would appreciate PRs. A slight difficulty is the necessary APIs were added in 13.4, and are independent from the other APIs being used. So this means basically having two complete independent implementations of keypress handling for pre-13.4 and post-13.4.

[emkey1]

Supposedly the following will disable Apple's "functionality" on MacOS.

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

I don't know if there is an equivalent in iOS. It would be nice if there were.

[WillDelish]

Would love to have this app support letter key repeats as a VIM user :)

[matteha]

Seconding this (seems to be a software issue as the Vim app in the App Store does work with letter repeating).

[Prurite]

Still no key repeat as of now, iSh 1.3.2 (Build 494) on iPadOS 17.1.1. Holding letter keys like h or k pops up a sub window in iSh, while working correctly in iVim.

A stackoverflow post https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/92101/how-do-i-enable-key-repeat-on-ios says:

I concur with the others: by default, the iOS settings only allows auto-repeat for non-alphanumeric characters (everything, except letters and numbers). But you can make it work with alphanumeric characters using wantsPriorityOverSystemBehavior. What I did was:

for key in 0x061...0x079 { // all 26 lowercase roman letters
let K = Unicode.Scalar(key)!
let key = UIKeyCommand(input: "\(K)", modifierFlags: [],  action: #selector(insertKey))
key.wantsPriorityOverSystemBehavior = true
basicKeyCommands.append(key)
let keyS = UIKeyCommand(input: "\(K)", modifierFlags: .shift,  action: #selector(insertKey))
keyS.wantsPriorityOverSystemBehavior = true
basicKeyCommands.append(keyS)
}

[GopherJ]

without fixing this, xiaomi pad + termux will be much much better than ipad + ish

[abastola0]

Still no key repeat as of now, iSh 1.3.2 (Build 494) on iPadOS 17.1.1. Holding letter keys like h or k pops up a sub window in iSh, while working correctly in iVim.

A stackoverflow post https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/92101/how-do-i-enable-key-repeat-on-ios says:

I concur with the others: by default, the iOS settings only allows auto-repeat for non-alphanumeric characters (everything, except letters and numbers). But you can make it work with alphanumeric characters using wantsPriorityOverSystemBehavior. What I did was:

for key in 0x061...0x079 { // all 26 lowercase roman letters
    let K = Unicode.Scalar(key)!
    let key = UIKeyCommand(input: "\(K)", modifierFlags: [],  action: #selector(insertKey))
    key.wantsPriorityOverSystemBehavior = true
    basicKeyCommands.append(key)
    let keyS = UIKeyCommand(input: "\(K)", modifierFlags: .shift,  action: #selector(insertKey))
    keyS.wantsPriorityOverSystemBehavior = true
    basicKeyCommands.append(keyS)
}

Anyone working on this? Just wanted to confirm if this works.

[zwing99]

+1 for priority on a setting for this..... please.

[jelleh]

Same problem, i can’t use hjkl in vim to navigate for now. This works well in Terminus. Really want to use iSH but with no key repeat i am forced to go back to terminus and ssh to a remote machine to use vim on the ipad.