[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-01-26 kl. 07:07, skrev lists at openmailbox.org:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:44:00 +0100
> Johnny Billquist via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-01-25 19:35, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
>>
>>> What's smashing your finger with a hammer and poking your eye with a
>>> sharp stick is trying to use EDT without a DEC keyboard.
>>
>> You do know that you can remap all the keys in EDT? You want a someone
>> Emacs-compatible setup for EDT? I have an init file for that lying
>> somewhere, that I could post for you...
>
> I'll take a look at it but I have a compact keyboard (no keypad section)...

You definitiely need a numeric keybaord section. But every keyboard
for a desktop computer has that and also all modern laptops apart
from the light-weight 12-13" types. But if you're into VMS, you
do get a full keyboard laptop, of course.

> so
> I don't think it's going to work. I don't necessarily need or want an Emacs
> compatible layout. I would have preferred to have an appropriate keyboard
> and use native tools. I really don't like having to remember key
> translations. I already have to do that to a small degree with another
> system I use and it can quickly get out of hand.
>
> Given using EDT with the right keyboard wasn't happening because I don't
> have VAX or DEC hardware...

Any keybaord with a numeric section is "right". It does *not* have
to be "VAX or DEC hardware"...

> and because I am already a long-time Emacs user
> that was plan B. I do like Emacs programming language support and many
> other features.

Good luck...

>