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Every Apple keyboard, even the iPhone I’m typing this comment on, has had a Return key. Only the Num Pad has an Enter key on Apple’s keyboards.
by wpm 1y ago
Every Apple keyboard, even the iPhone I’m typing this comment on, has had a Return key. Only the Num Pad has an Enter key on Apple’s keyboards.
- aldto 1y agoAnd Fn+Return can be used for Enter if the keyboard doesn't have a Num Pad, for the few Applications that use it.
- jama211 1y agoHuh, TIL. I do wonder though what programs are looking so specifically for the exact Enter code.
- comex 1y agoThis post has a few examples: https://daringfireball.net/2020/07/return_and_enter https://daringfireball.net/2020/07/return_and_enter
- jama211 1y agoGood old daringfireball! Ah, of course it makes sense, things akin to the shift+enter for adding new lines in messages without executing them or vice versa. I should’ve known.
- unwind 1y agoWow, throwback to running MacScheme (I think) on the university's Macs in a computer lab in the mid-90s. It interpreted main keyboard Return differently from numpad Enter, which to me (coming from the Amiga) was very confusing. If I recall correctly, only Return caused an evaluation attempt, while Enter merely added a line break for readability.
- iamflimflam1 1y agoThat would be incredibly handy for chat bots - the number of times I’ve accidentally hit return and then has to interrupt the bot so I can finish typing…
- wpm 1y agoOr Slack. Shift-Return for a new line, except if you're in a code block!
- jasperry 1y agooh, thanks for the fact check. I guess it's obvious which computing ecosystem I never touch :)