[Sniffnoy]

> it'd be nice to have a keyboard-based way to do this as well, perhaps using "enter" rather than return to trigger it

Does F2 not work for renaming files? Maybe that's only a Caja thing, I don't know...

[barrkel]

F2 for rename is a Windows idiom - as is the slow double click mentioned in the article. I'd be surprised if F2 didn't work, given the way Cinnamon apes Windows idioms.

(Not that that is a bad thing. I use Cinnamon by choice on Ubuntu 14.04 in my day job. I far prefer Windows idioms to the Mac conventions that much of Unity is aiming for.)

[edent]

F2 works for me in Cinnamon / Nemo.

Running it on top of Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro - so I can't say for certain that it is standard!