Talk:Enter key

message: I think it's vague to say "In word processing..." For instance, in Microsoft Word, pressing the Enter key twice to make space between paragraphs ignores the power of styles.  For a fine description, see shaunakelly.com.
Is "word processing" distinguished from other editing environments like Arbortext Adept and FrameMaker?  I think so. How would the naive user know that this distinction was being made here? (Hatsandcats 15:45, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More thoughts...

message: This article deals with the subject very confusingly, and even lists what the return key does before the enter key. But perhaps even more worrying is the liberal use of hyphens before key. It's just completely unnecessary. Poojean 14:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing 

message: Yes, there's a very important difference between these two keys, that this article entirely fails to explain at all, let alone adequately.  The problem with this article is that it is entirely oriented towards home and personal computers, and doesn't seem even fully aware of how even they work.  Go and read Terminal (telecommunication)#Modes for a brief overview of the difference between Return and Enter on computer terminal keyboards, that some personal computers have inherited in part because of their intended uses as smart terminals.  This article requires significant work to be correct, informative, and comprehensive. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (talk) 14:48, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Lest someone propose moving it to Return key as the primary topic, I’ll just point out that “Enter key” is the common name for the Return key, at least judging by everything I’ve ever heard from any non-Mac-centric sources. But it is useful to distinguish between them when discussing both. —Frungi (talk) 02:01, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

text: I think this article tries too hard to shape the reality to the author's / authors' views. The whole world calls the return key enter, keyboard manufacturers put Enter labels on return keys, but no, the author attempts to tell everyone that they are wrong, because in the 70s they worked differently. Sorry, but if everyone calls the return enter than the return is an enter because of this very fact, because that's the name people gave this key. I think the article may explain the difference, use the 'proper' terms throughout the text but should not dismiss the 'enter' name as wrong but explain that actually 'return' is a more precise name but 'enter' is also commonly used and OK. Ustt (talk) 16:57, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference between Return and Enter 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Incredibly confusing that Enter gets precedence on Wikipedia, both in terms of the article content and the fact that Return key is simply a redirect. The article itself explains that Return is the more prominent key: it's often larger in size, and Enter isn't even present on many keyboards.
--HunterZ (talk) 03:36, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swap Enter and Return precedence 

message: It was common well into the 1990s to see computer keyboards in the US whose Return key was a backwards-L shape, but the article doesn't seem to mention this at all. I would very much like to know the history of the US keyboard's Return key morphing from a backwards-L to a simple rectangle.
--HunterZ (talk) 03:41, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing history