8 Mar
2007
8 Mar
'07
3:33 p.m.
Especially if
you're running anything other than
windows. I make do with X-Terms with their keys remapped since I don't have
room to have a pair of VT420's setup. :^(
For VT100-compatible work, it's not _too_ hard to set up an emulation
environment that handles 99% of what's thrown at it (vttest is a good
way to see how your emulator _really_ behaves). If you need
double-high/double-wide or flashing chars, etc., it's harder to find a
good emulator, but unless you are recreating some ancient UI (like the
old "watcher" program at South Pole that used to run on a VT420 or
older, stuck in a hole in the wall in the galley), there's little call
these days for the extended features of the VT100 series.