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I am windows user who uses MacOS sometimes and I am still bewildered why I can't change Enter (rename) to behave, like an Enter (open) and Del to delete a file.

danaris 1y ago
Can you change the "Enter" behavior on Windows to rename the file? Can you change the Home/End behavior on Windows to match the macOS behavior? (Legit don't know the answer to these, but I suspect not...) If you can't do this on Windows, why would you expect to be able to do it the reverse direction on Mac? Just because it's how Windows works, and you expect the entire rest of the world to cater to the way you expect things to be when you have to go there? I only use Windows occasionally, but when I do, I expect it to act like Windows.
- general1465 1y ago
  yes you can https://superuser.com/questions/1758687/how-to-set-enter-to-rename-file-in-windows https://superuser.com/questions/1758687/how-to-set-enter-to-...
  - danaris 1y ago
    You have posted a link to a question asking about it that does not actually appear to have a valid answer provided. Someone mentions using F2 (which does not change the Enter behavior), and someone talks about using some third-party utility to globally remap Enter, which is definitely not a good way to do that (as they even point out). Again, I'm willing to believe that it may be possible—but you have not provided any evidence thereof.
    - general1465 1y ago
      If you would read it you would find ...Sharpkeys is the best remap utility out there. Also, no, you don't want to remap the Enter key, ... So yes you can.
      - danaris 1y ago
        You can remap the Enter key globally, which is not getting Windows to usefully change the behavior of opening a selected file by hitting the Enter key to instead rename the file. And while I've never tried it myself, I think it highly likely that you can remap "Enter" to "Cmd-O" on macOS, too, either natively or with some third-party utility. If you want to consider that "proof" that Windows can do what you describe, then I can't stop you, but even then it seems like a pretty thin endorsement for Windows over macOS.

danaris 1y ago

Can you change the "Enter" behavior on Windows to rename the file? Can you change the Home/End behavior on Windows to match the macOS behavior? (Legit don't know the answer to these, but I suspect not...) If you can't do this on Windows, why would you expect to be able to do it the reverse direction on Mac? Just because it's how Windows works, and you expect the entire rest of the world to cater to the way you expect things to be when you have to go there? I only use Windows occasionally, but when I do, I expect it to act like Windows.

general1465 1y ago
yes you can https://superuser.com/questions/1758687/how-to-set-enter-to-rename-file-in-windows https://superuser.com/questions/1758687/how-to-set-enter-to-...
- danaris 1y ago
  You have posted a link to a question asking about it that does not actually appear to have a valid answer provided. Someone mentions using F2 (which does not change the Enter behavior), and someone talks about using some third-party utility to globally remap Enter, which is definitely not a good way to do that (as they even point out). Again, I'm willing to believe that it may be possible—but you have not provided any evidence thereof.
  - general1465 1y ago
    If you would read it you would find ...Sharpkeys is the best remap utility out there. Also, no, you don't want to remap the Enter key, ... So yes you can.
    - danaris 1y ago
      You can remap the Enter key globally, which is not getting Windows to usefully change the behavior of opening a selected file by hitting the Enter key to instead rename the file. And while I've never tried it myself, I think it highly likely that you can remap "Enter" to "Cmd-O" on macOS, too, either natively or with some third-party utility. If you want to consider that "proof" that Windows can do what you describe, then I can't stop you, but even then it seems like a pretty thin endorsement for Windows over macOS.