Customizing the VT Emulator Keyboard

If you are using a VT emulator session, you can represent ASCII control characters in the character strings that you define for your customized keyboard.

Use the # character to represent the CTRL key, following it by any character from the following list (only upper-case alphabetics are allowed):

@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_

Use ## to represent an actual #. For example, 123##45 represents 123#45.

If you follow # with any other character than those shown, you will get an error message:

PCSKBD160 - Unrecognized key-action: "character string

For example, the error for the string "#a is

PCSKBD160 - Unrecognized key-action: "#a

The set of control characters is as follows:


Character pair	Control	Notes
#@	Control-@	NULL
#A	Control-A
through
#Z	Control-Z
#[	Control-[	ESC
#\	Control-\
#]	Control-]
#^	Control-^
#_	Control-_

Because the *.KMP file can be edited, there is a run time check to ensure that the character string is correct. If "### is processed, then # will be displayed, followed by a beep to signify that the entire character string was not played. If "123#a456 is processed, then 123 will be displayed, followed by a beep.