CDE And Vim -- Getting Color, and the PageUp PageDown keys

Brief

HOWTO - DTTERM

1. Use DTTERM ("Terminal") which supports color
   • There are three terminal programs in CDE : "Xterm" which executes xterm, "Terminal" which executes dtterm and "Console" which executes 'dtterm -c'
   • Open any of theses
   • Execute dtterm -bg black -fg white +sb -vb -xrm *menuBar:false
     The +sb gets rid of scroll bars
     The -vb turns off the bell.
     The xrm bit turns off the menu bar.
   • Make a little shell script to open a term window with your favorite settings. mine is :

     #!/bin/sh
     
     HOSTNAME=`hostname`
     dtterm +sb -bg black -fg white -vb -title $HOSTNAME -xrm *menuBar:false -geometry 115x50 & 
     

     (all one line)
2. Modify the .Xdefaults to change the default keymap that is set for the PageUp and PageDown settings.
   • add this one line to your ~/.Xdefaults :

     *DtTerm*Translations: #override\n<Key>osfPageUp: vt-edit-key(prior)\n <Key>osfPageDown: vt-edit-key(next)

   • Run this command to use the file you just ran :

     xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults

   • Re Open dtterm and enjoy
3. To Override the location of the VIM syntax and Help files :
   Add this to your ~/.vimrc at the VERY top
   helpfile=/usr/local/share/vim/vim57/doc/help.txt
   syn on
4. To swap Control + Caps Lock and Alt and Meta (make the sun keyboard act like a PC keyboard ) :
   
   • File: .xmodmap
     

     ! Swap Cap_lock and Control 
     !remove Lock = Caps_Lock
     !remove Control = Control_L
     !keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
     !keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
     !add Lock = Caps_Lock
     !add Control = Control_L
     !
     ! Make Cap_Lock control as well as control 
     ! For some reason you have to clear the control keys
     ! before doing this, and then readd them.   
     !
     clear control 
     clear lock
     keysym Caps_Lock = Control_R
     add control = Control_L Control_R
     !
     ! Swap Alt and diamond 
     !remove mod1 = Alt_L 
     !remove mod4 = Meta_L
     !keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
     !keysym Meta_L = Alt_L 
     !add mod1 = Alt_L 
     !add mod4 = Meta_L
     !
     ! Make Diamond alt
     remove mod4 = Meta_L
     add mod1 = Meta_L
     

   • Run xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
5. Make sure you invoke vim not vi (the OLD version that ships with solaris)
6. To get things to start up automatically in CDE :
   • ~/.dt/sessions/sessionetc
     Make this file executable (chmod +x sessionetc)
     

     #!/bin/sh
     
     HOSTNAME=`hostname`
     xmodmap $HOME/.xmodmap
     xrdb -all -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults
     dtterm -bg black -fg white -sb -vb -geometry 100x40 -C -title $HOSTNAME -xrm *menuBar:false &