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Article #15842Re: Does Versaterm do custom keymaps?
From: Marc Hannah
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1987 17:29
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1987 17:29
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In article <YUZDBsy00W0cz680F2@andrew.cmu.edu>, ch2f#@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles Huff) writes:
> ..
> major handicap). However, I think I would rather not switch if Versatem will
> not allow customizing of the keyboard map. Does anyone know of a program
> that allows:
> paste/cut to and from screen
> up and download in xmodem, kermit, and 'save/send ascii stream'
> custom keyboard mapping
> VT100 and/or Zenith-19 emulation
> autodial and/or mapping of keys to functions/character strings
> -Chuck Huff
VersaTerm will allow you to do all of the above features EXCEPT
change the keyboard mapping like Kermit. At first I thought this was a
great disadvantage but this was solved by a couple of things:
1. VersaTerm emulates the VT100 keypad on a Mac+ and SE correctly without any
special configuration stuff. This is what I wanted the kermit mapper to do.
2. VersaTerm does allow mapping the backspace key into delete and visa versa.
This is one of the things I had to change in the MacTerminal keymap in
MacTerminal 1.1 and it sure was painful to change it.
3. The commands menu allows you to record commands to be sent to the host and
they may be tagged as option-letter combinations. As an example I have
option-i send a key sequence which places our host in 'insert mode'.
This kind of stuff is VERY easy to do and more complex macros can of course
be defined (much more complex). The point here is that it is easy to
add new sequences to be sent to the host and tag them to option-letter.
To summarize: I originally thought I needed a custom keyboard mapping facility
in VersaTerm but I found that the tools provided do the job I personally
needed. That is not to say that others may not find their environment is as
compliant.
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