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Ask HN: Why do people tend to slam on the return/enter key?

5 points by vsax 8 years ago · 2 comments


invalidpath 8 years ago

It's the equivalent of yelling "DONE" to each line. I mean really, the satisfaction of hitting that carriage return is like crossing a finish line over and over....it doesn't get old? I think we need to go back to having a margin bell to ring at the edge of 80 columns :) (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card why this is so) so we know exactly when to hit the return.

ian0 8 years ago

Because it would be too tiring to slam on all the others.

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