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From: jr@CC5.BBN.COM@ndmce.uucp (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: How to set up vt240 for GNU?
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Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 17:04:57 EDT
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>> he (narrows it down a bit :-)) said he had a vt220 with DIFFERENT proms
>> which gave an escape when you hit F11 (in vt220 mode)
>> would it be possible to get copies of these proms
>> could it be a dec product?
>> might it even generate bs on the backspace key and lf on the linefeed key
>> i'd be interested to hear if anyone knows anything about this

The rumor I heard back when the VT220 first came out was that inside
DEC you could get a keyboard with VT100 layout (at least on the main
keyboard).  I assumed that would become an option, but it has never
appeared.  Surprisingly, none of the aftermarket (as far as I am
aware) has produced this keyboard either, though some of the clone
termiinals do provide it as their standard.  Can someone at DEC finish
this story for us?

Certainly in the case of emacs you can bind ESC [ 1 1 ~ (or whatever
F11 generates) to ESC-keymap to get the effect of typing the ESC key,
so the new PROMs shouldn't be necessary.  Unless, that is, you run at
300 baud or type at programs other than emacs.  :-)

/jr