[Info-vax] Terminal emulators, was: Re: OpenVMS graphics - once more

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/6/15 9:23 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> I had tried iTerm2 from a MacBook but never got that work right
> at all.

iTerm2 works very well for me but it took a lot of tinkering with the
key mappings to get it to behave. Even the arrow keys had to be
redefined, but now TPU and the screen mode debugger are happy and all
the keypad keys work fine in command mode. I am using an external Apple
keyboard, not the laptop keyboard.

caveats: Most likely I've disabled the ability to use the keypad in
numeric mode but I've never ever used the keypad to type numbers since
learning the EDT keypad 30 years ago. Important things like the arrow
keys don't work in non-VMS environments, such as the Integrity EFI console.

If you want I could send you the output of:

$ plutil -convert xml1 -o myiterm.plist 
~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

I haven't figured out how to export only the one profile designed to be
VMS-friendly rather than the entire settings file.