[Semi-OT] MacOS X Terminal.app keymappings

[Zane H. Healy]

At 10:46 PM -0600 5/24/05, Mike Cesari wrote:
>Try GLterm. You can get it at:
>
>http://www.pollet.net/GLterm/
>
>10 bucks shareware. It does VT102 emulation and has proper keypad
>functionality -- toggle between app and numeric keypad modes by
>cmd-numlock as numlock is *really* the PF1 key :)
>The only downside is that you have to use F1 - F4 for PF1 - PF4
>in numeric keypad mode.
>
>Double wide and double high characters are rendered properly.
>Characters are fuzzy under some conditions such as 132 column mode in
>a too narrow window and the double sized characters are somewhat fuzzy.
>This is due to the way he uses OpenGL to draw the characters. (See the Q&A)
>The graphics and line drawing characters (char. set 0) are there, too.
>
>It does a good job dealing with vttest (better than either xterm or
>Terminal.app), but no VT52 emulation.
>
>EDT and SED keypad works in TOPS-20.
>
>Not associated with the author, just pleased with the result.
>
>Mike

Wow!  That is without a doubt probably the fastest terminal emulator 
I've ever used!  My standard test of logging into OpenVMS, firing up 
"mailbox" (uses double sized fonts), and then editing a text file so 
I can test the keypad doesn't show any problems.

BTW, one interesting thing to note about the Mac OS X 10.4 upgrade is 
that the xterm handles doublesized fonts (I don't think I've ever 
seen an xterm on any OS do that).  With my modified .Xmodmap file, I 
have the xterm behaving almost as good, except it seems to loose its 
keymapping for the delete key occasionally.

I think I might just switch to this for my terminal emulation! 
Besides, I like that it uses a VT100 for an icon :^)

		Zane


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