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For some reason sometimes the numeric enter key acts as return and sometimes it doesn't. (I'm talking of the last key on the keyboard, the one with the "k" symbol tilted towards left.)
I'd like to be able to use it as the regular enter.
Do you know any tip in order to fix this? At the moment it is totally random. My guess is that some software I use remaps the enter into return, but I've not been able to point to which one.
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Here is snap-shot of what you want. ( source of lots of shortcut keys )
Suppose, I am a user, I would do as follows.
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Press ctrl+F7 to enable Full Keyboard Access. This setting is also available in the System Preferences under the Keyboard preference pane:
By selecting 'All controls', you can tab around keyboard focus between the various widgets in dialog boxes, including buttons like OK or Cancel. It's slightly different from Windows, in that return is like pressing the fully highlighted button, while space is like pressing the selected / outlined button.
This image shows the difference between the two:
In this example, the Cancel button has focus (from tabbing) while OK is the default. So pressing space would select Cancel, while return would select OK.
And for completeness, this one can be accepted by either space or return:
It's worth noting that some OS X dialog boxes (I've noticed this especially with dialogs asking whether it's OK to overwrite a file) will come up with, for example, Don't Overwrite as the default for return, and Do Overwrite as the focused item for space. This makes it a single key either way to do what you want, but you need to be sure you've got the right one!
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You've got your assumption a tiny bit mixed up. It's not that some software remaps the enter into return, it's that some software treats an enter as a carriage return and some doesn't.
They are two different keys with two differnet histories. One is enter and one is carriage return and they perform different functions.
I hate referencing wikipedia but hell, here ya go ... Differences between Enter and Return.
Usually most programs assume they are the same key - some don't. The AppleScript Editor for example uses ⌘+enter to force a script parse.