On 12/18/15 7:57 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

GOLD and COMMAND on the other hand are specific keys on DEC terminals, that both sent specific sequences of characters when pressed. As such, this is a bit more complicated. You could of course just send those sequence of characters yourself, but it might be non-trivial to remember the exact sequence, and there might also be timeouts in some software that could defeat you if you try typing them in by hand. Also, different DEC terminals might have sent different sequences for those keys, so the exact sequence might depend on what terminal you appear to have.

Johnny,

I am now using MacWise in VT100 mode and have figured out how to get GOLD and COMMAND to work (mapped {ESC O P to PF1 and {ESC O w to PF7 in MacWise). However, I'm still wrapping my head around what is happening as a result with respect to the keycodes. You explanation around timeouts is interesting and helpful. I have been reading the VT101 User Manual and that too, is helpful, although, there are a whole lot of codes and it would seem that I only need to be concerned with a few.

Let me ask you this, if I need to send a form feed or a line feed or another ascii character that is not given a direct representation (or the correct representation) by my keyboard, is there a mechanism to send the keycode directly? For example, linefeed is ASCII decimal 10. Is there an escape sequence that is equivalent to sending 10 across (maybe something along the lines of ESC [ 1 0 or something)?

On another note, it seems like the Mac Terminal ought to work as a VT100, or even VT52, since they are in the avanced section of the properties list, but I can't figure out how to make them behave reasonably.

Thanks,

Will
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