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

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 10:02:33 PM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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."

That's not the problem. Those are actually among the keys that DO work!
It's the . and 0 thru 9 that don't work, and in Terminal, they are not on the drop-down menu in the Key field, and you can't type them in, either.