Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Path: utzoo!sq!rph
From: rph@sq.sq.com (Pontus Hedman)
Subject: Re: VT220 Info Request
Message-ID: <1990Mar5.002124.13106@sq.sq.com>
Reply-To: rph@sq.com (Pontus Hedman)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
References: <48400008@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 00:21:24 GMT

In article <48400008@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> turner@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
>How do you set the function keys?  Are they even programmable?

To some degree; see below.

>Why don't F11(ESC) F12(BS) and F13(LF) emit what they claim to?

They do when you're not in VT200 mode.

>Please don't tell me to RTFM, as I don't have one.  Yep, I've
>got those old familiar second hand blues.

Same here, but somewhere sometime, I don't know how, I found out
that you can program the function keys when *shifted*.

Here's an example.  The following sequence makes shift-F6 and shift-F7 send
"hello" and "world" respectively (replace "^[" with ESC):

	^[P1;1|17/68656C6C6F;18/776F726C64^[\

The "17" is for shift-F6 and the hex that follows is the ascii for "hello".
The "18" is for shift-F7 and the hex that follows is the ascii for "world".

Strange terminal, it is. By the way you can also get ESC by pressing
control-3 (the 3 on the top row, not the numeric keypad).  In fact, try
control in combination with the other number on the top row.  Most do
interesting things.
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