[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-06-23, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> 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.  TPU's
>    predefined keyboards should also have that variation.
>

I have not used a DEC keyboard for development for over a decade.

I do however use the EDT keypad layout on a full PC keyboard on a
daily basis and it works fine. The only real difference is that there's
no delete word key (which I don't miss) and the 3x2 keypad between the
main keyboard and the keypad is used based on PC key labeling and not
the LK keypad assigned position.

This means that Page up is the top right key, Page down is the bottom
right key, Insert is the top left key and Delete is the bottom left key.

After a decade that feels natural to me and I can still use a EDT keypad
based editor (either emacs on Linux or TPU on VMS) just fine.

Simon.

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