Re: ProTerm arrow keys on a IIc!

[kindall@falcon.ic.net (Jerry Kindall)]

connolly@cc.memphis.edu wrote:
: In article <D9qILy.H6x@cs.dal.ca>, ab616@ccn.cs.dal.ca (Tony Cianfaglione) writes:
: > How come when I use ProTerm on a GS, the arrow keys in the vt100 
: > emulation work as they are supposed to but when I use my IIc, the arrow 
: > keys mess up and only work near what they are supposed to when I hold 
: > down the closed apple key in conjunction with the arrow keys? 
: > 
: > Does anyone have a solution to this dilemma?

: Yes, but you may not like it.  Use Kermit instead.  It won't do as much, but at
: least the arrow keys work.  (I grit my teeth and hold down the closed apple
: myself.  I don't think there's a good reason for the decision: if Kermit didn't
: have to do it that way, why should ProTerm?)

On the IIGS a program can tell whether the arrow key, or the corresponding 
control key, is being pressed by reading the keyboard modifier register.  
On the IIc it can't.  Which would you rather have to do: hold down the 
SA key when using the arrows, or have Control-H, Control-J, Control-K, 
and Control-U unexpectedly mapped to VT100 cursor control sequences?

: Leo A. Connolly                         Foreign Languages & Literatures
: connolly@msuvx1.memphis.edu             University of Memphis

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