Overview of Keymaps
Terminal A device usually consisting of a keyboard, a display unit such as a cathode ray tube, and a serial port used for entering and sending data to a computer and displaying any data received from the computer. Terminals are usually connected to a computer with a serial line or some other type of connection. There are many terminal types including VT100, VT102, VT220, and others.
emulators, such as SecureCRT, use a keyboard emulation or “keymap” to map keystrokes from your local keyboard to the keystrokes that a remote host would expect. For example, assume you are a Windows NT user running a SecureCRT
session A session is a set of options that are assigned to a connection to a remote machine. These settings and options are saved under a session name and allow the user to have different preferences for different hosts.
that is configured with the VT220 terminal emulation and associated keymap. When you press the F1 key (which in NT would open the Help system), SecureCRT sends a Hold Screen command to the remote host as if you were pressing the F1 key on a VT220 terminal.
In SecureCRT, every session uses a keymap. Keymaps can also be used for more than one session. SecureCRT provides built-in keymaps for ANSI, Linux, SCO ANSI, VShell, VT100, VT102, VT220, WYSE50, and WYSE60 terminal emulation. You can also create custom keymaps using the Keymap Editor.
Selecting a Keymap
SecureCRT automatically chooses a built-in keymap to use based on the terminal emulation selected in the Terminal/Emulation category of the Session Options dialog. To select a different keymap for a session, check the Select an alternate keyboard emulation option in the Terminal/Emulation category and select the built-in or custom keymap that you want to use.