Num Enter as a hotkey: Is it possible to differentiate between Num Enter and regular Enter?

Questions & Suggestions
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I'd like to assign a macro to the Num Enter key on my Apple extended keyboard.

Is it possible to differentiate between Num Enter and regular Enter (the key above the right Shift key)?

2

Do you not find that the keys are treated differently?

Return and Enter are indeed separate keys and can be recognised as such in KM.

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3

Thank you. It would never have come to my mind that Return and Enter aren't synonymous.

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I see, yes, well it's not a difference that one often needs to think about often in everyday use of a Mac. In general, applications tend to respond to Return and Enter in the same way.

One notable exception is if you select a track in Music.app and then press Enter; rather than starting playback, as Return would do, the Title field is selected, ready for editing.

5

Well, the words "Return" and "Enter" are printed right on the two different keys.

6

Nope. Not in my backyard, er, on my keyboard. Apple has different labels on different keyboards. Same for Option/Alt/⌥

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Top tip for laptop users, confused by their lack of an Enter key...

You can get Enter by using Fn-Return -- great for apps like FileMaker that treat the two keys differently.

And also works for KM triggers!

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