The HIG states:
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Enter
Most applications add information to a document as soon as the user
enters it. In some cases, however, the application may need to wait
until a whole collection of information is available before
processing it. The Enter key tells the application that the user has
finished entering information in a particular area of the document,
such as a text field. While the user is entering text into a text
document, pressing Enter has no effect.
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But, what I have noticed is that both Pages and Keynote treat the
enter key just like the return key when entering text, which seems
to go against the HIG.
The humble TextEdit also violates the HIG.
Personally I don't have a strong opinion on it, but I don't see why
the Enter key shouldn't do something in a text document. It's not as
if the user would expect the keystroke to dismiss the whole document
window as it would with a sheet/dialog. But perhaps the HIG is
concerned with the reverse? That a user gets accustomed to the Enter
key inserting a newline, and then tries it out in a sheet,
accidentally dismissing it?
In my company's application, we use the Enter key to scroll the
insertion point / selection into view and "flash" the surrounding area
to help with spotting it.
~Martin
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