Thread: Feature Request: Carriage Return Opens Book
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Old 11-17-2017, 08:20 PM   #26
davidfor
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
I will think about it, but TBH I will probably simply delete the new shortcut. I don't want RETURN to do anything on the book list if not editing a cell.

As for "standards": my experience is that RETURN does different things in different places. For example, in excel it advances a row. In acrobat it advances a page. In some applications it opens a "details" view. In zillions of applications it "pushes" the default button. It is only in a file manager that it opens the underlying file. I don't see why a file manager's behavior should trump (for example) excel's, given that the user is seeing a spreadsheet of metadata. Opening the book would be close to the last thing I expect ENTER to do.
All that was why was I careful to say, "do the default action". To me the fact that pressing enter did nothing was wrong. I am used to scrolling through lists with the arrow keys and pressing enter to act on the selected item. When I started using calibre, I expected that hitting enter would open the book in the viewer. Maybe that meant I saw calibre as a fancy file manager. But, if it had opened either the metadata editor or book info, I probably wouldn't have thought anything was wrong.

In any case, thanks to you and Kovid for the update.
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