Hitting "return" in a file explorer context menu should not rename the file

[NSExceptional]

Type: Bug

Forever now, the behavior of hitting "return" in the context menu of a file explorer item was to activate the highlighted menu item. This is how it worked in VS Code and how it works in basically any app. At some point that behavior changed, and now it just runs "rename" (whose shortcut is the return key) instead, which is really annoying and breaks literal years of muscle memory for myself and many others, I'm sure.

What I'm not sure of is whether this is a macOS change or a VS Code change

VS Code version: Code 1.96.0 (138f619, 2024-12-11T02:29:09.626Z)
OS version: Darwin arm64 24.2.0
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Apple M3 (8 x 2400)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	2, 2, 2
Memory (System)	8.00GB (0.19GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 8a1dca50-bfd2-4ed7-8721-07dc12b8f52d
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

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vscode-fileutils	sle	3.10.3
addDocComments	ste	0.0.8
gitblame	wad	11.1.1

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[vs-code-engineering]

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Happy Coding!