[Info-vax] iTerm2 question (Re: OpenVMS graphics - once more)

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 10:02:50 AM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 8/27/15 5:49 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> > For all of the function key stuff, I really haven't had that requirement
> > with OpenVMS, and I'm using Terminal.app -- the integrated emulator and
> > shell environment on OS X.
> 
> Me either. I really never use the top row F keys since I have the
> application keypad, editing keys, and arrow keys working, but for the
> sake of completeness and because someone asked I was trying to figure
> out how to get them working too.
> 
> It looks like simple definitions do work for F5, F6, and F13-F19, but
> F1-F4 and F7-F12 are harder to separate from their Apple-specific
> definitions. Some of them can be made to work while holding down the Fn
> key, which made me realize that the Fn key itself (which would be Find
> on an LK keyboard) also cannot be straightforwardly redefined.
> 
> Sometime it might be fun to muck around in the AppleSymbolicHotKeys
> portion of the defaults system and see if there is a way to create
> application-specific entries. But for now it's back to the day job.

Karabiner seems to be the ultimiate swiss-army knife.  It has lots of "Fn" modifier support (for the whole set).  it actually has more options than I can understand without going to their online docs.

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/