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Comment by kqr

> 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.

parent kqr 23 days ago

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