[Info-vax] VT keyboard replacement

[Slo]

On Monday, November 8, 2021 at 1:07:12 AM UTC+1, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Monday, November 8, 2021 at 12:20:10 PM UTC+13, Chris Townley wrote: 
> > For anybody brought up on VMS Ctrl-Y is hardly the best to recover...
> The fun doesn’t stop there: how about CTRL/S for forward search, CTRL/Q to literally enter the next character, CTRL/X as a prefix for multi-keystroke commands, CTRL/C as a prefix reserved for user-defined commands, CTRL/O to break a line, CTRL/U to enter a numeric argument ...

I'm aware of Emac's power, but how does it manage to grab all those
CTRL combos from the terminal driver? Can't check now, does SET TERMINAL /PASSTHRU
exist? It's been a long time...
Way before Emacs, I was in love with Wordstar on CP/M and it's "cross" made
from CTRL+
QWER
ASDF
ZXC
(Gamers today use the same keys, but without CTRL, of course.)
That was extremly productive -- using the main keyboard for input
an total control. This layout was an option in many other tools at the
time. Sadly, the IDIOTS who designed the IBM PC
keyboard moved the CTRL key to the bottom left, making it 
barely usable only for  ^X ^C ^V ^D, most other commands now
require two hands.
At that point, I stopped using Wordstar on Windows;  for some time, folks 
would remap the Caps Lock key to CTRL, but eventually all software 
using the cross died away -- because of some idiot keyboard designer, 
who never touch-typed or programmed.