[dingo_bat]

Renaming: I think if the enter key does anything except execute/open the selected file it's non obvious and nonsensical. Also, the F key mappings are all random. It's meant to be like that. F5 is refresh. F11 is full screen. These are a bunch of unnamed keys that can be assigned arbitrary functions. Some apps hardcore it, some let users change.

[moogleii]

> Renaming: I think if the enter key does anything except execute/open the selected file it's non obvious and nonsensical.

In a vacuum, sure, I could agree with that. But in conjunction with cmd + [arrow] to move in and out of your current position, I think cmd + down to open a file continues that line of thought and is intuitive and obvious in the Finder context. After drilling down with cmd+down, if it's another directory, open it, else if it's a file... open it.

Alt-up and enter to do similar navigation all make sense in their own individual context, but in the context of each other or Explorer itself, is not intuitive and is nonsensical imo. That would be like mouse wheel down to scroll, but ctrl+up to scroll the other way. And F2 I guess, as you put it, is just pure randomness and would make no sense in any context.

[intoverflow2]

>Also, the F key mappings are all random. It's meant to be like that. F5 is refresh. F11 is full screen

Isn't this just the typical argument of "Well that's how it's always been!". You're advocating something arbitrary and nonsensical just because you're used to it.

[Jarwain]

He's not really arguing anything. He was explaining why F2 was picked as the key for renaming; all the F keys were random and arbitrary. He never said whether thats the best way or the only way; he's not advocating it. Merely stating that the F keys were intended for arbitrary functions.

[peyton]

Re: renaming. The 'Enter' key is marked 'Return' on Apple keyboards and has different semantics to the 'Enter' key used in Windows.