[Info-vax] macOS Terminal app. Numeric keypad fails for EDT.

[Craig A. Berry]

On 9/20/22 2:21 PM, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 10:17:05 AM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> On 9/20/22 8:31 AM, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Got my new Mac. Old one was running Mojave. Terminal on EISNER works
>>> fine for editing. My new Mac is running Monterey. I run Terminal,
>>> open a file in EDT, and the numbers on the numeric keypad do
>>> nothing. They> also do nothing at a DCL prompt. Also, the PF1-4 keys
>>> work from F1-F4, and F12 is BEGINNING OF LINE.
>>
>>> Is there some secret setting I'm missing? Or do I need a 3rd-party
>>> app? And if so, can anyone here recommend one? Thanks!

>> It doesn't look like they're secret. Go to Preferences --> Profiles -->
>> Keyboard and you can add all the key mappings you want. You can even
>> create a VMS-friendly profile if you want different settings from what
>> you use for other things (or want it to automatically log in to your VMS
>> system, for example).
>>
>> I've never done this with Terminal, only iTerm2, but I did that at a
>> time when Terminal did not have the keyboard mapping capability some
>> years ago and have never bothered to do all the set-up for Terminal.
> 

> I already tried that. You can't map to those keys. They are simply
> not listed in the key drop-down.

They are there.  They are even called PF1, PF2, PF3, PF4, etc. This with
Terminal 2.12.7 on macOS 12.6, vt102 selected in the Advanced tab for
"Declare terminal as."