[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-06-25 kl. 16:59, skrev 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'm pretty sure 99% of VMS developers hasn't.

> 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.

Yes, what I've been saying. A standard PC keyboard works perfectly well.
I do not think I have used a kayboard with the old DEC layout since we
ditched the VT520's 25 (or whatever) years ago.


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