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As a long time user of googles web based terminal (accessed normally through google cloud platform console by listing your VMs and clicking the SSH button): I
by rmac 11y ago
As a long time user of googles web based terminal (accessed normally through google cloud platform console by listing your VMs and clicking the SSH button):
I love it because I don't need to worry about key management and can access my machines anywhere that has a browser.
However, my few gripes are:
1)when copying text out of the web terminal window that spans multiple lines (on Mac osx chrome), newlines are inserted.
2) ctrl v doesn't work (nano/pico)
3) Ctrl c sometimes doesn't work
- balls187 11y ago> ctrl v doesn't work (nano/pico) OT, this is a big reason why I encourage people to learn vi/vim. It doesn't rely on ctrl, and can be used in environments that do weird mappings to control characters. Anything you can do with ctrl, can be done with regular keys and commands.
- hbogert 11y agoSo if the environment is broken, or at least subpar when it comes to functionality, you "fix" the application?
- balls187 11y agoI cut my engineering teeth having to work on a lot of disparate systems run by the US DOD: VAX, True64, PC Linux, SGI. Having a single dependable text editor that worked across all of them consistently was important. Those environments were neither "subpar", nor were they "broken."