[Info-vax] Last Call for (New) DEC VT Terminals

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-06-28 13:39, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2015-06-28, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>
>> Keyboard emulation bugs are also annoying by the way, but I've never
>> tried finding those. Thanks for the info on PuTTY there. Worth noting
>> that the PF keys send different codes if they are in keypad mode or not.
>> As do the arrow keys...
>>
>
> Since I make heavy use of the EDT keypad layout on both Linux (emacs)
> and VMS (EVE) the keyboard emulation needs to be to a very high quality
> for me.

I use EDT on RSX, but I normally use xterm, and it works fairly right 
even with "incompatible" keyboards, but that is the only combo I've been 
trying that part on...

> As for the PF keys and the arrow keys, the PF keys send the same sequence
> regardless of application keypad mode setting.
>
> For the cursor keys, they continue to send the normal cursor key
> sequence, even when the keyboard is in application keypad mode, unless
> you also use the escape sequence to enable the application mode for
> cursor keys (DECCKM; which is not tied to the application mode for
> the keypad).

Ah. Thanks for the reminder. I clearly do not play enough with they 
keyboard trickery. :-)

(Several years since I last wrote something that cared about the input 
that much. Output is something I more often are playing around with.)

	Johnny

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