Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!dartvax!vallury From: vallury@dartvax.UUCP (RustCat) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: when using termcap, get it right! Message-ID: <6522@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 02:46:37 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.6522 Posted: Tue Jun 23 02:46:37 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 06:43:33 EDT References: <1149@carthage.swatsun.UUCP> <8601@tekecs.TEK.COM> <6828@mimsy.UUCP> <16906@amdcad.AMD.COM> <1335@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu> Reply-To: vallury@dartvax.UUCP (RustCat) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 25 Keywords: termcap, curses In article <1335@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu> catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Tony Catone) writes: >In article <16906@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes: >The problem we have with this is that our users fall in love with >the VT100 keyboard for editors like EDT and TPU, and then complain >about the incomplete VT100 emulation PC's provide. In reality, most >times it turns out the emulators (PC/Intercom, MS-Kermit, CrossTalk) >are very complete (with the notable exception of 132 column mode), but >are limited by the fact that the PC keyboard does not physically have >as many keys as the VT100 layout. Unix users of emacs and vi are >not usually as unhappy, since those editors do not rely as much on >function keys etc. > As far as the VMS and the terminal emulation thereof on a PC is concerned, it shouldn't take too long to write up a little TPU initialization file rebinding keys to perform whatever editing functions you want. Just look at the EDTSECINI file in your VMS system to see how this is done. The key defining function in VAXTPU will do most anything for you. Enjoy. "We cut down some trees and we trailed our ideals through the forest glade" Vallury