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

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-03-06, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
> 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.

Are you aware that TextWrangler (free) has the ability to unpack plist
files for an edit and then repack them on a save?

With the TextWrangler command line tools installed:

$ edit  ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

Note that the App Store version of TextWrangler doesn't provide the
command line tools, but an add-on is downloadable from the link
given on this page:

<http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/index.html>

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