[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[John Reagan]

On Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 3:41:32 PM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Absolutely.  I use a standard PC keyboard and use the keypad with LSE, DTM, and Notes.  It all works just fine.  I have an LSE init file that makes F9-F12 into the "DO" key.  I tend to use Emacs all the time, but Emacs seems to have issues when I have SET PROC/PARSE=EXTENDED enabled.  It also has issues with using angle braces instead of square braces in filespecs.  Those are the times I'll just hop into LSE.