Well, with one line in terminal, you can have it. It's disabled by default because now when you press and hold a key, a list of alternate characters appears but not when using vo. Put this line in terminal to restore your old friend "key repeat" and vowell away! defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false -- Jonnie Appleseed with his Hands-On Technolog(eye)s reducing technology's disabilities one byte at a time ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx