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Mark
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Posted: 04:33pm 30 Dec 2024
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The Macintosh using the screen program running in a terminal window can easily connect to a PicoMite. However, the terminal emulation is not quite right. For example, the BACKSPACE key doesn't seem to work and in the editor, the INSERT key fails to toggle between insert and overwrite. Has someone tweaked the Mac terminal setup and screen program settings to work with MMBasic? If so, can you share your settings?

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Mark
 
thwill

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Posted: 04:38pm 30 Dec 2024
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Hi Mark,

Just (educated) guessing here, but I think you will find Ctrl-H will do the PicoMite backspace operation from 'screen' and that this link might help you with configuring 'screen' to remap keys: https://superuser.com/questions/1465908/how-to-configure-screenrc-to-bind-backspace-to-ctrl-h

Best wishes,

Tom
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gemh
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Posted: 08:07pm 30 Dec 2024
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Hi,

Long time lurker, first time posting - so hello.

Ctrl+H is the correct answer but if you would like to change this to enable the delete key to work as expected on your Mac edit ~/.screenrc and add the line

bindkey "\177" stuff ^H

You will need to fully quit terminal and restart it.

Also just in case people are searching this in the future and have the error "screen $TERM too long - sorry." when trying to connect to their devices the fix is to edit ~/.screenrc with the following

term rxvt-256color
bindkey "\177" stuff ^H

I hope that helps.

Guy
 
phil99

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Posted: 09:26pm 30 Dec 2024
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Further info on Screen is in the new manual p8.
 
Mark
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Posted: 10:31pm 30 Dec 2024
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Thanks for the bindkey "\177" stuff ^H - it works great.

Is there a similar bindkey to get INSERT working. It needs to stuff ^N, but I can't find the code for the INSERT key (I am using a Logitech Keyboard on my Mac.



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