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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 9/21/22 3:51 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2022-09-20 21:57, Steven Schweda wrote:
>>> Am I the only one in the newsgroup that uses a Mac to access an
>>> OpenVMS box?
>>
>>     I use XQuartz > Terminal (xterm).  With a little xmodmap action, it
>> does what I need.  I haven't noticed any new (xterm) trouble with
>> Monterey (12.5.1, on a Pro (Late 2013)) compared with Mojave (10.14.6 on
>> a Pro (Mid 2010)).
> 
> I use XQuartz as well, and you don't need any xmodmap action at all. 
> xterm works correctly directly out of the box, assuming you just tell 
> xterm that you want it to behave like a vt terminal, and so on.
> Can be done on the command line, or through x resources.

I just tried it with XQuartz 2.8.2.  VMS recognizes it as VT400_Series
with "VMS Style Input," but backspace is mapped to control-H, not
backspace and the most basic keypad editing in TPU throws all kinds of
errors such as error in escape sequence, unrecognized escape sequence,
unmapped keys, etc.  So yes, a lot of key mapping would be necessary,
plus some way to set the size bigger than 24 x 80 and find a readable
font. No doubt that's all possible with enough fiddling.