gjditchfield@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield) (03/03/91)
How do I get Terminal to generate control-/ and control-\ on a NeXTstation?
The / and \ keys up on the numeric key pad don't seem to respond to the
Control modifier.
Glen Ditchfield gjditchfield@violet.uwaterloo.ca Office: DC 2517
Dept. of Computer Science, U of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) (03/03/91)
In article <1991Mar2.205755.6799@watmath.waterloo.edu> gjditchfield@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield) writes: > >How do I get Terminal to generate control-/ and control-\ on a NeXTstation? >The / and \ keys up on the numeric key pad don't seem to respond to the >Control modifier. This is a "feature" of the "new" and "improved" keyboards. I suggest that you call your NeXT salesperson and ask them to provide you with a keyboard that isn't deficient. Perhaps they can even swap your "new" keyboard for a "classic" keyboard that doesn't exhibit this problem. The answer when I'm not pissing and moaning about the new keyboard, and the one that NeXT is likely to foist on you is to use the "Keyboard" application to define a new keyboard map that includes these characters on someother key. Look in /NextDeveloper somewhere for it. louie
gene@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Gene De Lisa) (03/03/91)
In article <1991Mar2.205755.6799@watmath.waterloo.edu> gjditchfield@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield) writes: > >How do I get Terminal to generate control-/ and control-\ on a NeXTstation? >The / and \ keys up on the numeric key pad don't seem to respond to the >Control modifier. I had the same problem with kermit; the esc char by default is control \ I solved this by putting the following lines in .kermrc set modem hayes set line /dev/cua set speed 1200 set baud 1200 set esc 9 This last line sets the esc char to be control-I which == 9 (control-a is 1 control-b is 2 etc). Of course if you're not asking about kermit then this is useless :) -- more direct: vortech!gene@Central.Sun.COM
anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (03/03/91)
In article <1991Mar3.002740.406@solo.csci.unt.edu> gene@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Gene De Lisa) writes: >I had the same problem with kermit; the esc char by default is control \ >I solved this by putting the following lines in .kermrc >[...] >set esc 9 >This last line sets the esc char to be control-I which == 9 >(control-a is 1 control-b is 2 etc). Depending on what you're connecting to, you may find it useful to keep your tab key (normally ^I) working. Many kermits use ^] as the escape key, which seem to conflict with a minimum number of other applications. So I chose set esc 28 (control-]) to solve the control-\ (29) problem. <> Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks <> differently. -- Rosa Luxemburg -- Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888
scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) (03/04/91)
In article <1991Mar2.234239.21446@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: In article <1991Mar2.205755.6799@watmath.waterloo.edu> gjditchfield@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield) writes: > >How do I get Terminal to generate control-/ and control-\ on a NeXTstation? >The / and \ keys up on the numeric key pad don't seem to respond to the >Control modifier. This is a "feature" of the "new" and "improved" keyboards. I suggest that you call your NeXT salesperson and ask them to provide you with a keyboard that isn't deficient. Perhaps they can even swap your "new" keyboard for a "classic" keyboard that doesn't exhibit this problem. It's not a "feature" (nor misfeature) of the keyboard. Apparently, it's a bug in the NeXT internals - someone simply forgot to map it correctly. Presumably that will be fixed in NextStep2.1. [See! That's what you get for changing keyboards, guys! :-) ] As mentioned, you can use Keyboard to remap it to something else. Otherwise (and here's the promo) you can download Stuart2.11 from the archives. I placed a "fix" in it to internally remap ctrl-\ to be correct. Since not many other apps have a need for ctrl-\ (can't think of any besides terminal emulators), that's not really that bad of a solution. Of course, I didn't realize that ctrl-/ was broken - maybe because I didn't realize there is such an ASCII character. Or, did you mean that as ctrl-"the key with / on it and \ in the shifted position?" Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad <I still speak for nobody> "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Bannana, banna."
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (03/04/91)
In article <1991Mar2.234239.21446@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: >This is a "feature" of the "new" and "improved" keyboards. I suggest that >you call your NeXT salesperson and ask them to provide you with a keyboard >that isn't deficient. Perhaps they can even swap your "new" keyboard for >a "classic" keyboard that doesn't exhibit this problem. I think I understand why NeXT was so eager to swap keyboards with us; on the one I'm using right now, all the keys are there and in the right shapes, but there are some additional green legends: Q Lighter W Heavier E Italic 1 Help 2 Define Also, the Delete key is labeled Backspace and Delete is in green. We must both think we exchanged "defective" keyboards!!! (And we're both happy!) -=EPS=-