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Comment by Sardtok

7 hours ago

Aaaah, he's got carriage return and enter mixed up. The whole reason for the symbol being an arrow returning to the beginning of the line, is because it's the return key. I love the Canadian enter symbol, an arrow pointing into a box.

Enter appropriated the same “arrow returning” symbol long ago, and the key is colloquially known more often as Enter these days.

  • Yes, but he calls the enter key return and the return key enter.

    • 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 platforms. This all makes sense to me. Since the keys on the photos don’t have labels, this feels better for a reader in 2026 than being overly pedantic.

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