Hitting "Enter" on selected folder icon renames instead of opens

As a former Windows user, I'm used to being able to hit "Enter" to open a selected folder or file in Finder, but hitting "Enter" on a selected folder in OS X merely sets it to rename the file (the same as F2 in Windows). Is there an equivalent of the "Enter" key in Windows in OS X?

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I have been trying to write a script that will replace text in every file and folder from given folder, and all of its subfolders and files.
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end tell
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Message was edited by: James @ Hakoona

Hmmm, that script is definitely a bit old.
An alias will still refer to the same file or folder, even if renamed. Your script does not crash on my machine, but the list of folder items to rename is empty. You are doing a lot more work than you really need to - you can just tell the Finder to get a list of file or folders so you don't have to do all that looping. By the way, you do not need the Finder to display the dialogs - normally an application tell statement should just contain terminology for that application (i.e. commands specific to the application).
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font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
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padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
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