How can I disable `ApplePressAndHoldEnabled` for a specific application (repeat keys instead of showing an accent menu)?

Question

I'm using IntelliJ IDEA 14.1.4 Community Edition in Mac OS Yosemite 10.10.5.

I already know about the global ApplePressAndHoldEnabled fix:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

But I want to disable it only for IntelliJ IDEA, and none of these commands work when using the "IdeaVim" plugin with Scala (With restarting IDEA):

defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij.ce ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
defaults write com.jetbrains.intellij ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
defaults write com.jetbrains.AppCode ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Or any of the other commands listed here.

How do you disable ApplePressAndHoldEnabled for a specific application?

Answer 1

You can find the appropriate domain name by grepping the output of defaults:

defaults read | egrep -o 'com\.jetbrains\.\w+' | sort --unique

For IntelliJ Ultimate it gives me:

com.jetbrains.intellij
com.jetbrains.intellij-EAP

where the second one is for EAP builds of IntelliJ.

Answer 2

As found in this SuperUser post, it may be necessary to delete the global default before the application-specific default will be visible.

defaults delete -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled

After I did that and set an application-specific value for RubyMine...

defaults write com.jetbrains.rubymine ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

...I could use IdeaVim in RubyMine and still use the press and hold accent dialog in all other applications.