alt Hacker NewsI remember being mildly intrigued as a kid when I started seeing PCs with the Enter key where my C64 had Return.
It's ironic that, though we haven't seen a Return key for a long time, the down-left arrow symbol still used on many keyboards represents the motion of a carriage return. I guess there's no other symbol that would convey the meaning of Enter as well.
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Same for me. It had the smell of professionalism. Even more than for an Enter key I longed for the luxury of four distinct cursor keys.
The 2023 MacBook Air I'm typing this on has a return key.
> I guess there's no other symbol that would convey the meaning of Enter as well.
Just wait until UI mafia from Microsoft, Apple or Google find about this. They will come with a new symbol every 3 months.
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.