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Topic: What is actually the difference between "enter" and "return" keys?

Meta !Sober//iZs started this discussion 6 years ago #88,704

And why do Apple keyboards have a "return" key instead of an "enter" key? ?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 18 minutes later[^] [v] #1,014,255

@OP
The concept of "return" comes from typewriters: at the end of a line, you had to pull the return lever which both moved the whole paper carriage back to the left (carriage return / CR) and rolled the paper up one line (line feed / LF). The return key on a computer keyboard was designed to do the same thing - move the cursor back to the left and down one line.

"Enter" is simply the more modern name, as very often the return key is used to input a line of data after it has been typed.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 4 minutes later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,014,256

@previous (B)
Thanks Google!

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 3 minutes later, 26 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,014,257

Their difference exsists as an artifact in the differing of handling new lines. There is no real difference anymore.

(Edited 18 seconds later.)

Bilbo !RwordOooFE joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 38 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,014,264

@1,014,255 (B)

Good old carriage return.

Anonymous B replied with this 6 years ago, 34 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,014,278

@1,014,256 (C)
> Thanks Google!
No need to look up stuff on Google when you are erudite. Thanks.

Syntax joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,014,386

@previous (B)
> erudite
For sure no one will confuse you with Thee Thy or I.

Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,014,447

I was listening to dipshits talk about when Apple became "cool" in their words, supposedly when all that ipod/phone shit happened. Apple was cool (or as I like to say, interesting, perhaps "neat" if pressed for an overly familiar idiomatic term) in the 1970s into the 1980s when they had those fun Apple II computers. When they turned into a huge company when shitheads would form long lines at their shops to spend loads of money on a new thing, it jumped the shark big time.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 2 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,014,485

> What is actually the difference between "enter" and "return" keys?

Mainly the spelling.
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