[Info-vax] EDIT wierdness with OpenVMS 9.2 on x86

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-04-18, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-04-18 at 16:14 +0100, Tom Wade wrote:
>> > Any ideas?
>> 
>> A wild guess is that your terminal emulator is sending an extra
>> linefeed character when you start the editor.  In EVE, a CTRL/J (LF)
>> deletes the current word.
>
> That's a pretty good guess, I'll check my terminal emulation settings.
> I've been using device_type=vt132 with /page=43 and /width=143 as
> that's my favourite gnome terminal settings. 

Have you successfully used gnome-terminal to edit files on other VMS
systems ?

Unless gnome-terminal has massively improved in the last few years,
I would strongly recommend that you not use it with VMS systems and
that you use an alternative instead.

I would suggest either xterm with a suitable keyboard mapping script,
or PuTTY (which does indeed run under Linux and also comes with a
pterm component).

If using pterm, you will probably have to use options on the command
line to set it up how you want, and you _may_ need to force application
keypad mode.

Using vttest at https://invisible-island.net/vttest/ used to be rather
interesting when trying it against the various open source terminal
emulators other than xterm or PuTTY but that's not something I've had
the need to do in recent years.

Simon.

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