[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[John Reagan]

On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 12:21:41 PM UTC-4, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> On 6/26/2016 10:39 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> > On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 11:00:34 AM UTC-4, hb wrote:
> >> On 06/25/2016 10:02 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> Admitted, I'm not a regular Emacs user, but I can see the problem with
> >> angle brackets - and I'll try to fix it. But I don't see a general
> >> problem with extended parsing (for example, ^x^f works as expected on an
> >> ODS-5 disk with extended parsing enabled). Can you give some examples
> >> what doesn't work?
> >
> > It might have to do with some DECC$ logicals I set.  It comes up in
> > raw emacs mode since it couldn't read the base emacs definitions.
> > I'll figure out the guilty party and let you know.  Maybe a
> > configuration issue at our end.
> >
> > It also doesn't like files with ACLs.  If I have write access via
> > some held identifier but no write access via the protection mask, I
> > only get read access.
> 
> It might be the setting of DECC$ACL_ACCESS_CHECK
> 
> Regards,
> -John

That's is.  Why in the world would the default be 'disable'?  I went and read the internal notesfile that discussed adding the support back in 2003.  There was no reason NOT to make it default 'on' and not even have the logical to being with.  Sigh...