mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) (10/13/87)
OK, on a microVMS VAXstation, is there a way to get an ESC key in a
single keystroke, and a BREAK key in a single keystroke?
On a real vt220 (North American) keyboard, F5 = BREAK, and F11 = ESC,
but even in vt220 emulation, the VAXstation preempts F5 for CYCLE and
leaves F11 as ESC[23~ (7-bit controls).
It's a royal pain having to use ctrl-[ for ESC in emacs on a VAXstation!
(No, EDT doesn't cut it for what I want to do. No, I don't have time
to learn TPU.)
Thanks,
Mike Khaw
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USnail: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303jg@jumbo.dec.com (Jim Gettys) (10/13/87)
Won't do you immediate good unless you want to run Ultrix for a while, but X11 has extensive facilites for customizing keyboards to taste. I don't know if UIS has any way to solve your problem. Jim Gettys
stuart@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Stu Ericson) (10/14/87)
In article <17848@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes: > OK, on a microVMS VAXstation, is there a way to get an ESC key in a > single keystroke, and a BREAK key in a single keystroke? > > On a real vt220 (North American) keyboard, F5 = BREAK, and F11 = ESC, > but even in vt220 emulation, the VAXstation preempts F5 for CYCLE and > leaves F11 as ESC[23~ (7-bit controls). > I thought you had to be in VT100 emulation on a VT220 to get those mappings for F5 and F11, so maybe there is a similar setting on the VAXstation. A shortcut for ESC on most new DEC keyboards is CTRL-3. ( don't ask me why!) I believe that other numbers give CTRL shortcuts as well, but not for break... Stu -- Stuart Ericson USnail: AT&T Bell Laboratories USENET: ...!ihnp4!ihlpf!stuart IH 6M-313 voice: (312) 979-4152 Naperville-Wheaton Rd. Naperville, Il 60566
mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) (10/15/87)
> I thought you had to be in VT100 emulation on a VT220 to get those > mappings for F5 and F11, so maybe there is a similar setting on the > VAXstation. I've tried using the workstation setup menus to set the "terminal type" to vt100, but when I pop a new terminal window, "show term" says I'm using a "vt200_series" terminal. Even if I then "set term/dev=vt100", I still get F5 = cycle and F11 = ESC[23~ ... FOO and double BAR. Mike Khaw -- internet: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.arpa usenet: {uunet|sun|ucbvax|decwrl|uw-beaver}!mkhaw%teknowledge-vaxc.arpa USnail: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303
ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat) (10/18/87)
I'm not at work right now, so I can't verify this, but to the fellow who complained that he (in summary) set the terminal type to vt100, but the system still defined it as a vt220: I believe you have to ALSO have it use a vt100 ID; this is another item in the selection menu. -- Dave Ihnat ihnp4!homebru!ignatz || ihnp4!chinet!ignatz (w) (312) 882-4673