OT What does RET (Enter) do and how does it do it ??

Andrew Kelly akelly at corisweb.org
Mon Aug 27 08:37:09 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 18:52 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Thanks Rick;
> 
> I put your answer together with Alan's and I think I get a satisfying
> answer.

Indeed. Well written, both of them, and wonderfully complimentary.

> > 
> To re-summarize, the meaning of RET is established by the program being
> used.  The program can create it's own meaning for RET; or use a
> standardized meaning according to what has been bound to the keymap the
> program is using, or redefine the keymap it uses to bind one or another
> meaning to a key press or event.

'Xactly. Just take the program 'more', for example. The way it reacts to
an <ENTER> strike is not what you'd expect at all, if you're familiar
only with command line or word processing stuff.

Andy




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