How to use enter itself to add a line and not send a message in imessage on mac.

I'm going to go out on a limb an suggest this is a purely personal preference, and that the majority of people are not sending 20-100 lines of text in a single message.

Messages.app grew out of (on top of) the original SMS messaging protocol, which was limited to 240-character messages, so 20-100 lines was never an option.

That said, check out Karabiner - it's a little daunting, but it allows almost complete control over keyboard inputs - you can literally rewrite every key's function to act like any other key (or key combination). It should be easy to override 'Enter' to present as 'Option-enter' within Messages.

I'm 99.99% sure Apple aren't going to change this on their own.

If you are about to write 20-100 lines in an iMessage, it is probably best that you edit the text somewhere else first...

Open Notes, or TextEdit, compose your text - it will be much easier to view and edit. When ready you copy and paste, or even drag to Messages, or use perhaps even better: control-click->Share->Messages:

You've talked to all the people who've switched from Windows to a Mac?!?! Wow, you've been busy.

Apple has a long history of not offering lots of customization. Some people like that; some people don't. All you can do is send feedback to Apple to let them know what you'd like to see:

Product Feedback - Apple

No. It's because there are no more feature changes to Catalina, only security updates. Plus, once Ventura is released, only Ventura, Monterey and Big Sur will be supported.

Yes that’s cool option to share a text . But it’s still counterproductive as mentioned in original text and in that case probably using option plus enter together would be even easier.

this should be resolved by apple.

what’s surprising is that there’s tons of options to adjust keyboard layout and shortcuts within macOS and they haven’t implemented such tiny yet important thing.

seems silly to me 😂🤣

It is a matter of opinion.

I am sure that if Apple were to change the implementation, so that you'd have to click Send instead of press enter to send a message, there would be a lot of users protesting too.

I suppose they could add a preference setting so that users could choose which way they like best, but that could also be argued against...

Sanji02933 wrote:

And that was my point. Adding an option to choose from.

btw: this is irrational if people would argue against it. It’s like arguing against freedom .

Or it's arguing against feature bloat, against making the OS increasingly complex, therefore making it harder to use.

seriously ? 😃😂

I’d totally agree under normal circumstances but did you even noticed the complexity of keyboard settings under max os? 🤦🏼‍♂️

They’re implementing a hundreds of solutions each year (and many of those are the ones that independent developers came up with (just like with adding visual adjustments for iOS after cydia devs came up with the ideas first).

Sanji02933 wrote:

I’d totally agree under normal circumstances but did you even noticed the complexity of keyboard settings under max os?

All the more reason to argue against making it more complex (though it doesn't currently seem very complex to me).

Ok. Cool.

so we’d argue against making it complex (a one single feature) and we’d say that it’s not complex so far (while all of people I know who switched from windows say [in positive and negative way] it’s quite complex . Read: difficult or offering lot of features])? 👍🏻

dialabrain wrote:

IdrisSeabright wrote:

You've talked to all the people who've switched from Windows to a Mac?!?! Wow, you've been busy.

lol I think you need to re-read what was said. 😎

Nah, not worth the effort.

have you provided them with feedback

Product Feedback - Apple

Just to add to what Camelot said, even if Apple decided to make the change, it wouldn't be in Catalina.

And that was my point. Adding an option to choose from.

btw: this is irrational if people would argue against it. It’s like arguing against freedom .

I guess that. Probably they’d say that there are huge hardware and system requirements for that 🤣👍🏻. Its funny 😆 but sad 😢