Most jEdit dialog boxes contain multiple buttons, and the user can tab from one button to another using the Tab key. Once the user has stopped at a button and it is highlighted, they quite rightly expect that action to be performed when they press the Enter key. But jEdit misleadingly performs whatever action whose button is selected when the dialog box first appeared, the default.

For example, in the Search > Find dialog box, if the user tabs to the Replace All button, that button is highlighted. But then pressing Enter does not execute the selected button. Instead it executes the Find button (which was the button selected when the dialog box first appeared).

For example, if the user makes changes to a file and then tries to close the file, the "File Not Save" dialog box appears, with the "Yes" button preselected. Pressing the Tab key then selects the "No" button. But pressing Enter does not execute the "No" button.