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Re: [jed-users] VT100 compatible terminal emulator?


Konsole got really really bad.

The "maintainer" (possibly for Mint before they dumped KDE all together) didn't even know what a VT-100 was. I pointed out how is VT-100 emulation wasn't working as I had an actual DS-10 Alpha running OpenVMS to test on.

His first reply was "Vim users wanted those keys to work in Vim so he deleted them from the VT-100 portion."

When I offered to create him an account on my DS-10 Alpha and send him an LSE tutorial so he could really honestly test is VT-100 (and up) support he told me I wasn't being helpful nor was I very polite.

Mint dropped KDE not long after that. I suspect because they had many such "maintainers".

While you probably don't want to hear it, I did manage to get PuTTY to work pretty well. I'm guessing if you don't have X that probably isn't an option for you.

On 7/26/2021 7:37 AM, r wrote:
Yes.  In the mid-2000s I had a major issue with the terminal not differentiating between these:
left
ctrl-left
alt-left
shift-left
alt-ctrl-left
alt-shift-left
ctrl-shift-left
alt-ctrl-shift-left

Konsole does this just fine now, and I know a few other emulators do as well.
Back then, I had to edit this konsole keyterm file extensively.

With numlock on, the number pad 0 produces 0 in JED in Konsole.

Guake will probably work as well.  Gnome terminal should also with proper settings, as I used it under Windows WSL v1, and got the 8 above keys working independently.

On 7/26/21 5:02 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:

I am using jed with edt mode since I was forced to switch from VMS to UNIX
in the early 1990's.

The edt function keys are hardwired in my brain, because it was my first
editor.

So far, I was using jed within the classical xterm terminal emulator, but
for some unknown reasons the xterm popup menus (font selection, etc) are
not working any more for me.

The VTE based terminal emulators like gnome-terminal or xfce4-terminal
have a bad VT100 support: they have no application keypad mode, which I
REALLY need. For example, on a VT100 or xterm the key "0" on the numeric
keypad produce <ESC>Op, whereas gnome-terminal produces just 0. Therefore,
their VT100 mode is very bad = broken for me.

Are there any other X11 terminal emulators with a good VT100 support?

I cannot use xjed, because many of my hosts do not have X11.


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