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LOL! I love the arbitrary definitions and usage example you give so passionately as if that settles the argument definitively.

Enter could mean, "Begin entering text", sure. But it doesn't. It means "release the block on input", usually passing the text being queued in the input buffer or a pointer to it. Escape has traditionally been the "mode change" button for literally my entire life.

It's wonderful to see Mac fan boys still going though!

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it's no more arbitrary than the article's arguments, or your own "Enter could mean, "Begin entering text", sure. But it doesn't. "

Mac fan boys or not, that's just how a Mac works. Calling it inferior just because it's different and then name calling ppl fan boys is just the way to go.

Why did we have to go to Start menu to search for "shutdown" in Windows? To a new user the start menu would be the LAST place she would look for the shutdown command. Start could mean "start the shutdown procedure" sure, but it doesn't.

Idk, having file names be editable like this strikes me as supremely weird, especially coming from a Linux background where we all understand that leaking(well, I suppose implementing here) such functionality isn’t what the user would expect. But again OS X isn’t designed for people like me, so maybe I am just projecting preferences.

If by OS X you meant the GUI, then no OS X wasn't designed for people like you, the original Mac was designed for people who don't want to deal with MS DOS command lines and the GUI design choice have largely been kept intact for almost 40 years. So no you're probably not their target audience. But thank you for allowing for the possibility of preference projection, instead of insisting one way of doing things is inherently superior to another like the others. We don't want everything work the same way otherwise what's the point. To a unix newbie, using mv as a rename function is also extremely strange but to the OG this could well be the most beautiful and efficient implementation.

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