Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!YALE.ARPA!LEICHTER-JERRY From: LEICHTER-JERRY@YALE.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Re: use of VT220 function keys Message-ID: <8609200527.AA28729@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 01:28:22 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8609200527.AA28729 Posted: Sat Sep 20 01:28:22 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Sep-86 05:24:32 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa Does anyone know if it is possible to define one of the function keys on the vt220 to be a Right (arrow) key followed by a DELete key? In particular, I would like to be able to delete the current character while editing a recalled DCL command line. Can't be done. Intra-line editing is done by the terminal driver, which hands the result over to DCL. Key definitions are made and interpreted by DCL, way too late for line-editing characters to be noticed. An alternative is to use the UDK (User Defined Keys) feature of the VT220. You can define the shifted function keys to send any sequence of characters at all. VMS can't tell whether those characters came from direct typing or from the key definitions, so inserting RightArrow/DELETE as the UDK definition should work just fine. -- Jerry -------