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> Because Return renames the file. Pretty sure the guy you're responding to knows that. The question is why is the key mapped to "rename", when "open" is likel

> Because Return renames the file. Pretty sure the guy you're responding to knows that. The question is why is the key mapped to "rename", when "open" is likely the far more common command? > On my machine it searches where I am. Just tried it. I also just tried it; the default is "This Mac". Here's a GIF of another user showing this behavior: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/219410/73670 https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/219410/73670

pwinnski 8y ago
Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced: "When performing a search:" you can choose from "Search the Current Folder" (my current setting) or "Search This Mac" (apparently yours) or "Use the Previous Search Scope"
- deathanatos 8y ago
  So, I'm nearly certain that I've not touched that setting, so the default is then "This Mac", which again, is what the parent is pointing out. Without saying that the parent is right, that you've customized your setting does not invalidate the point the parent is making: that it is a bad default. (In fact, your customization might be proof towards it being a bad default.)
  - pwinnski 7y ago
    I didn't think I'd changed my default either, but I remembered I did run a shell script to set up "MacOS for developers" when I first got it, so maybe that was an included change. I think all that demonstrates is that the default is bad for you and me. My parents use Macs, and I've watched my mother work enough to know she relies on the "This Mac" behavior regularly. She is a teacher, not a developer.
coldtea 8y ago
>The question is why is the key mapped to "rename", when "open" is likely the far more common command? "Far more common" for whom? Just because you have that in e.g. Windows?
- deathanatos 8y ago
  Users. What's a more common operation: rename this file, or open this file? I think if you did just a general survey of operations on a files, opening a file is vastly more common than wanting to rename it. (And including all operations, including those that might be done with a mouse. I think you should design the keyboard around allowing users to transition into being power users, s.t. common inputs are doable on the mouse, but faster (but obvious) on the keyboard.)

pwinnski 8y ago

Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced: "When performing a search:" you can choose from "Search the Current Folder" (my current setting) or "Search This Mac" (apparently yours) or "Use the Previous Search Scope"

deathanatos 8y ago
So, I'm nearly certain that I've not touched that setting, so the default is then "This Mac", which again, is what the parent is pointing out. Without saying that the parent is right, that you've customized your setting does not invalidate the point the parent is making: that it is a bad default. (In fact, your customization might be proof towards it being a bad default.)
- pwinnski 7y ago
  I didn't think I'd changed my default either, but I remembered I did run a shell script to set up "MacOS for developers" when I first got it, so maybe that was an included change. I think all that demonstrates is that the default is bad for you and me. My parents use Macs, and I've watched my mother work enough to know she relies on the "This Mac" behavior regularly. She is a teacher, not a developer.

coldtea 8y ago

>The question is why is the key mapped to "rename", when "open" is likely the far more common command? "Far more common" for whom? Just because you have that in e.g. Windows?

deathanatos 8y ago
Users. What's a more common operation: rename this file, or open this file? I think if you did just a general survey of operations on a files, opening a file is vastly more common than wanting to rename it. (And including all operations, including those that might be done with a mouse. I think you should design the keyboard around allowing users to transition into being power users, s.t. common inputs are doable on the mouse, but faster (but obvious) on the keyboard.)