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foobarian on Jan 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving efficiently in the CLI

My favorite X-windows customization for improving the CLI experience (though it helps with all editing) is cranking up the key repeat rate to a lot higher than is possible in GUI control panels (and lowering the repeat delay):

xset r rate 160 80

I haven't found how to do this in OSX yet, but there is probably a way.

alsetmusic on Jan 27, 2018 [–]

> I haven't found how to do this in OSX yet, but there is probably a way.

  defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 0.02

https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-macos-command-line

foobarian on Jan 27, 2018 | [–]

I never got that to work somehow. I'm sure I have the wrong OSX version.

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