[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

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In article <nklnnu$pp3$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>Den 2016-06-24 kl. 12:10, skrev lawrencedo99 at gmail.com:
>> On Friday, June 24, 2016 at 1:13:04 AM UTC+12, Bob Koehler wrote:
>>
>>> I've asked for this before, and I'll say it again.  VMS needs to have
>>> keyboard layouts for EDT and DEBUG that are PC friendly.
>>
>> EDT is another tool that needs to die.
>>
>> In my RSTS/E days, we used a TECO-based screen editor called VTED (a
>> local adaptation of some code originally from DECUS or somewhere).
>> Unfortunately that was never ported to the VAX. So I gritted my teeth
>> and put up with EDT for whatever far-too-long fraction of my lifetime it
>> was until TPU came along, which was halfway decent in comparison (even
>> with that weird initial (mis)behaviour with search pattern matches).
>>
>> Nowadays of course I use Emacs. Is Emacs available for VMS? That has to
>> be a big improvement to whatever DEC-originated editor you might be
>> using now.
>>
>
>My first and most important requirement on an editor is that it always
>should be available "out-of-the" box no matter what customer site I get
>to. So anything that doesn't come with VMS is out, such as Emacs.
>
>Then, personaly, I never have come around learning TPU, EDT has served
>me well both in the early days on RSX and VMS. Now, I haven't looked
>too closely at this, but it is my impession that EDT is slightly more
>"kind" against VT emulators then TPU is.

$ SET TERMINAL/TYPE=VT100 with most of the emulators and TPU is usable.   
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