Special characters distractingly hover when key hits repeat

[mark.mccullagh]

Hi, there’s a somewhat annoying behaviour that I haven’t been able to figure out how to stop: when I hold down a letter key on my keyboard while in editing mode, after 1 second or so, when it goes into “repeat” mode I guess, an image of alternative characters related to that key’s character hovers above my text. It’s a distraction! This hovering image then disappears when the next key is pressed. See image, showing what happens when I hold down “e” key (in Vim editing mode).

Does anyone know how to stop this behaviour?

Here are the plugins I have installed:
Canvas
Command palette
File recovery
Page preview
Quick switcher
Templates
Citations
Copy as Latex
Dataview
Folder focus mode
Pandoc plugin
Pandoc reference list
Smart Typography

[Pch]

If you’re on Mac, I think this is a native feature of the keyboard …
(Although, maybe it could be available from other OS too… but I wouldn’t know )

At least, being on Mac, the “hold key and get alternative characters” is a feature I’ve used a lot across apps and the ages …

[mark.mccullagh]

Thank you SO MUCH! I’d assumed it was Obsidian because I noticed it only there. But I did find the hidden feature of osx and found how to turn it off:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

[Pch]

My pleasure !

I didn’t know if there was a way to disable it or not () and I’m glad you found a way to do so

[Guapa]

FWIW, also possible through system settings:

You can add accent marks and special characters to some letters. For example, press and hold the a key to type à, á, â or other characters.

If you set the “Key repeat rate” slider to Off, special characters won’t appear when you hold down a key.

Set how quickly a key repeats on Mac