|
| ▲ | MrDOS 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'd never really thought about it before, but Enter to advance to the next field field and Ctrl + Enter to submit the whole form (which is the typical keyboard shortcut for submitting the form while a multi-line text input control has focus) does have a certain appeal to it. |
| |
| ▲ | bsimpson 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | The overloading of return to either send a message or add a newline has become really annoying since chat apps (and then now AI) have become popular. You have to keep a mental context of whether you need to hold shift before you press return. See also: every message I've ever sent that ended with I' because I fat-fingered the ' key while typing a contraction. | | |
| ▲ | Joker_vD 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Terminal keyboards generally used to have two separate ENTER (submit the form to the mainframe) and RETURN (insert a line break) keys. I mean, even the original 101-key PC keyboard has them: the RETURN key above the right Shift, and the ENTER key of the numpad. | |
| ▲ | tracker1 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Shift+Enter will usually enter a newline in a message without triggering send... At least that's the convention used most of the time. No guarantees on specific applications, just my own experience with this. | | |
| ▲ | Joker_vD 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Some applications annoyingly use the opposite convention: Shift+Enter is what commits the entered text, while plain Enter inserts a newline. | | |
| ▲ | tracker1 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, it's not always consistent... hell, google voice's sms in the web app will take shift+enter but fail and just submit half the time anyway. |
|
|
|
|
|
| ▲ | cosmotic 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What would be 'submit' then? |
| |
| ▲ | CamperBob2 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Enter/return on the 'Submit' button, I suppose. The rationale may have been "Start at the beginning of the form, keep hitting Enter after filling in each field, and it will submit itself when you're done." | | |
| ▲ | drivers99 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Some terminal software would use a function key that would be labelled "Execute". You'd usually have a template to put over the function keys to tell you what does what. |
|
|
|
| ▲ | raverbashing 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| To me that sounds like the way MacOS avoids Home/End with alternative solutions that kinda work but are not great (And yes I do miss those - with an external keyboard these get less painful but still don't work 100% like on a PC) |
