| ▲ | kqr 2 hours ago | |||||||
> What Windows calls ⏎ Enter, Mac calls ⏎ Return. I'm not an Apple person at all, but this is one of the hills I die on. The "Enter" key is for entering data, submitting a field, etc. The "Return" key is for returning the carriage, i.e. starting a new line. Importantly, those two are different functions! The only keys that exist twice on the keyboard are modifier keys (Ctrl, Shift, sometimes Super and Alt). The Return or Enter keys do not need to exist twice. Clearly these are meant to be two different functions, because they are two different keys on the keyboard. To my wife's annoyance, I teach my children the correct names for these keys. | ||||||||
| ▲ | AdamN an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
The carriage return is moving the typehead to the beginning of the line, not starting a new one. Line feed is the command that is incrementing to the new line. Those two commands almost always run together so it quickly became possible to invoke with a single CRLF command (in ancient computer times) | ||||||||
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| ▲ | compounding_it 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
The arrows on newer keyboards are gone. Now it's just text. I wonder if that changes anything because Enter doesn't really sit well with the arrow next to it as entering data need not necessarily cause a carriage return. | ||||||||