Caps lock delay

Snow Leopard had a thing that delayed caps lock enabling for a second or so so accidental presses were ignored.
Now I have mountain lion and this delay is gone. Both on my Macbook Pro and iMac (with bluetooth keyboard).
I can't find settings or anything sensible on it. Does this feature still exist or did Apple in all it's stupendous wisdom remove yet again a usefull feature?
I've reset my Pram multiple times already.
I, for another issue, reinstalled the Macbook a while ago and the issue persists through that.
I've reset settings (plists removal) and changed settings and back to trigger a renewal of plists.
I've installed all updates that got prompted to me. I always keep up to date.
Nothing seems to work.
Any ideas besides learning to hit A properly? Thanks a lot in advance!

You must be the only person who likes this "feature", and you're the only person who "fixed" it to how the rest of us want it to be!
My new MacBook Pro's internal keyboard and external aluminum keyboard still have the delay (which I hate!).
Must be another problem, because it isn't like Apple disabled this delay for the rest of us who, can type correctly without "help", asked them to. Good luck in your endeavor. I wish I had your "problem"!

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    Pajaro wrote:
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