I seem to recall that there is a little utility that changes the behaviour of the enter key.
----- Original Message ----- From: "erik burggraaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <discuss@macvisionaries.com> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:26 PM Subject: Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 36, Issue 7 Well, I went right from dos 6.2 to windows 98, and enter has always performed the action of a double click on files. Call me chirlish, but I don't want to get used to this. It's awcward, and it's rong. The most performed actions go to the most convenient keys. And if you don't like keybord lay outs under windows, you just change them. Especially screen reader keybord layouts. If vo has a command for open, why can't I change it from vo down arrow or whatever stupid thing it is to the enter key? Using enter as the rename key is a waste and for some one migrating from windows to mac it could potencially cause a serious problem.. Best, Erik At 12:00 PM 3/7/2008, you wrote: >From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Precedence: list >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby >the > blind" <discuss@macvisionaries.com> >References: ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:34:43 -0500 >Reply-To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X > by the blind <discuss@macvisionaries.com> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Subject: Re: The behavior of the enter key? >Message: 31 > >I don't remember it being used in windows.95. I've onlhy come across this >on the Mac. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Cara Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by >theblind" <discuss@macvisionaries.com> >Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 10:55 AM >Subject: Re: The behavior of the enter key? > > > If I remember right, this was also used in Win 95 as well. > > The only reason peeps were able to press the enter key to open >files and shortcuts etc. was because JFW or WinEyes made it work that >way. > >Smiles, > >Cara :) > > >On Mar 6, 2008, at 6:16 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > > > It's an old apple convention dating back to when you click to open. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "erik burggraaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <discuss@macvisionaries.com> > > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:45 PM > > Subject: The behavior of the enter key? > > > > > > Hi friends, > > > > I'm getting into mac os and exploring the programs bit by bit, and > > one thing above all else is really starting to irritate me. That is > > the behavior of the enter key in finder. It pops up a box you can > > use to rename the file or folder that has focus. If you want to just > > open the thing you have to use command O. What is the dang sense of > > that? How often do you want to rename safari and itoons for example, > > compaired with the number of times you just want it to open? Please, > > is there any way to change this aweful behavior? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Erik > >
