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fasola
5d ago
Except in many apps Return submits forms and Shift+Return inserts a new line, and in many other places Return and Enter do the same thing, showing to me that those labels are already pretty meaningless. It feels like a transition a good des
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fasola
6d ago
I would love for Apple to move from Return to Enter as the default label, indeed.
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fasola
6d ago
No. He calls the big one Enter presumably in recognition that’s what people know it as (check how any cross-platform web app calls it), and the numpad one Return/Enter because that’s what it is collectively known as across all the plat
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fasola
6d ago
Enter appropriated the same “arrow returning” symbol long ago, and the key is colloquially known more often as Enter these days.
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fasola
6d ago
??? This isn’t on the linked page.
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fasola
2mo ago
The mea culpa covers the (accidental?) app copying part, but doesn’t cover the lying to Gruber part, which seems worse.
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fasola
7mo ago
> You continue to use it for something else? How is it different from any other default shortcut you don't like and change? It’s different because “you” in this context is the keyboard manufacturer, not the user.
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fasola
2y ago
I saw the argument more as: Gorton begat Leroy and that became the defacto technical drawing standard through the widespread adoption of drawing templates. The differences between Leroy and the standards you mentioned seem very small to m
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fasola
2y ago
The article has a link to the licensing agreement between Taylor Hobson and Gorton, links to other posts explaining how Leroy bought Gorton machines, an interactive comparison where you can see the similarity of the letters, and dozens of p