[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-06-22, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2016-06-22 09:08:51 +0000, Paul Richards said:

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>  Windows from an aeon or two ago used NUMLOCK or shift-NUMLOCK for
>  that embedded keypad, IIRC.

FWIW I have used the equivalent on an OS X laptop to jump back and forth
and use the 'numeric keypad' overlay on the keyboard.

Not the most satisfying of experiences but it did do the job.

A useful workaround for TPU is to define ctrl-D as Do and ctrl-F as
Find.  You can still do stuff if you find yourself without the
application keypad, albeit slowly.

Here is my EVE$INIT file (I picked ctrl-D and CTRL-F not only because
they provide something easy to remember but because they are not
used by default by either EVE or DCL command line editing):

$ type eve$init
DEFINE KEY=CONTROL-D DO
DEFINE KEY=CONTROL-F FIND

 and the login.com entry to enable it:

$ define eve$init sys$login:eveini.eve


EDT in line mode is also useful, and of course once you are up and
running to the point where you can install Vim, you need neither the
numeric keypad nor function keys.

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