Enable key-repeat for ALL applications or just for IdeaVim/specific JetBrains apps

IdeaVim OS X Key Repeat.markdown

Upgrading to Lion or Yosemite and WebStorm 9, I noticed key repeat was
turned off for the IdeaVim plugin h j k l keys.

System-wide key repeat

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false in a terminal will enable
key repeat for every app. This can alternatively be found in the accessibility settings in OS X' preferences.

App specific key repeat

If you only want this behavior for specific JetBrains' apps, use:

• Community Edition IntelliJ: - defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij.ce ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
• Ultimate Edition IntelliJ: defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
• AppCode: defaults write com.jetbrains.AppCode ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
• PyCharm: defaults write com.jetbrains.PyCharm ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
• Android Studio: defaults write com.google.android.studio ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
• WebStorm: defaults write com.jetbrains.WebStorm ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false *
• RubyMine: defaults write com.jetbrains.RubyMine ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false *

** * These are assumptions, use Spotlight com.jetbrains. to get type hinting for your specific app**

CLion: defaults write com.jetbrains.CLion ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
PhpStorm: defaults write com.jetbrains.PhpStorm ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

for webstorm, defaults write com.jetbrains.WebStorm ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false worked for me!

Thank you!

Reboot computer after running the command

What would it be for Rider?

It says this is also available in system settings / accessibility but what is it called there?

Rider is com.jetbrains.rider. For EAP builds, it's com.jetbrains.rider-EAP

Tried defaults write com.jetbrains.PyCharm ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false first --didn't work for me
Tried defaults write com.jetbrains.pycharm ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false then as suggested by @purple4reina -- worked!

I'm using MacOS High Sierra

Has anyone an idea how to do this for the toolbox installed versions? They seem to have the same key in the plist, but it didn't work for me using these commands

Yes, does anyone know how to get this to work for toolbox versions?

Tried defaults write com.jetbrains.RubyMine ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false and worked like a charm.
I'm using MacOS Mojave version 10.14.1

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled 0
same as
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Thanks!

You saved my life man! I was having issues with Webstorm on Big Sur.

Thanks! Worked for Goland.

defaults write com.jetbrains.goland ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Thanks. It worked to me in Android Studio.

Nice, It worked for me in Android Studio. Thank you~

I had accepted by mistake PyCharm's suggestion to create the global setting. Then I reversed it with defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true. After that the commands for the individuals apps were not working, even though I had set them properly. After I removed the entry they started to work: defaults delete -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled
This was on the Toolbox version of the apps.

defaults delete -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled

This worked for me too in combination with the above instructions

I had accepted by mistake PyCharm's suggestion to create the global setting. Then I reversed it with defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true. After that the commands for the individuals apps were not working, even though I had set them properly. After I removed the entry they started to work: defaults delete -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled This was on the Toolbox version of the apps.

This is what I had to do to get it working 👍

I wish I had taken this screenshot before pressing the wrong option here. I spent quite sometime trying to reset the options so this window would appear again. I tried a few of the solutions above and didn't work.

In case anyone else is having trouble getting this working for PyCharm installed through Jetbrains Toolbox, I first did a search with defaults find pycharm and found it's named similar to intellij in the original post. This command worked for me: defaults write com.jetbrains.pycharm.ce ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false.