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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-09-21 15:30, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
> 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.

There is an option, even available in the control-leftclick menu, to 
tell xterm to send DEL when you want to delete characters. And FYI, 
control-H is actually the backspace character. But yes, getting 
backspace when you press that <X] key is really annoying. Lucky it's so 
easy to fix.

Along the same lines, you then also want to select the "VT200 keyboard" 
option. In the same menu, as well as settable by command options.

No keymapping scripts or anything funny needed. Set the size of the 
terminal by just dragging it out. Select font by control-rightclick.

   Johnny