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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/7/15 1:10 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> 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

Thanks. I use TextWrangler all the time but didn't know about that feature.