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But what’s the alternative? Local development with syncing back to a server? The lag is something that I can deal with. For me, the killer feature is the autom

But what’s the alternative? Local development with syncing back to a server? The lag is something that I can deal with. For me, the killer feature is the automatic reconnects. I usually only use mosh when I’m traveling and at conferences. In that scenario, I’m either using my iPad (with keyboard) where the client might be killed anytime I switch apps or I’m using the conference WiFi, with is always spotty. In either case, using a mosh client makes me less likely to throw my laptop or iPad down in anger every 5 minutes.

acoard 7y ago
>But what’s the alternative? Local development with syncing back to a server? I'd say this is a perfectly fine solution for a lot of cases. Not all, of course, like your iPad one sounds a great fit for mosh (and I'm gonna try it out!) But even a RaspberryPi can power a really powerful terminal. You can use sshfs[0] to mount a remote drive over ssh. Obviously there will still be some lag - `ls` will require a round trip - but your local terminal will be much snappier. [0] https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
- anamexis 7y ago
  Blink is a great and open source SSH/Mosh client for iPad. https://blink.sh/ https://blink.sh/
  - earthboundkid 7y ago
    This sounds like a joke but is entirely serious: How is mouse support in Blink? I've been searching online and can't find a good answer. I regularly use the mouse in Terminal.app to manipulate Tmux windows and move around in the Micro text editor. I am curious about Blink, but hesitant to drop $20 if it turns out it doesn't work the way I need it to for terminal usage.
    - mbreese 7y ago
      It isn’t great at the moment. Something broke in the recent update to break text selection, which is what I was trying to use a mouse for. But, the author is working on a fix. I don’t know how good the mouse works uses other than selection, but mouse support in general isn’t great at the moment. But Blink is the app I use for SSH/mosh on the iPad too.
catalogia 7y ago
> But what’s the alternative? Local development with syncing back to a server? That basically describes TRAMP mode, right? It works well.

acoard 7y ago

>But what’s the alternative? Local development with syncing back to a server? I'd say this is a perfectly fine solution for a lot of cases. Not all, of course, like your iPad one sounds a great fit for mosh (and I'm gonna try it out!) But even a RaspberryPi can power a really powerful terminal. You can use sshfs[0] to mount a remote drive over ssh. Obviously there will still be some lag - `ls` will require a round trip - but your local terminal will be much snappier. [0] https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs

anamexis 7y ago
Blink is a great and open source SSH/Mosh client for iPad. https://blink.sh/ https://blink.sh/
- earthboundkid 7y ago
  This sounds like a joke but is entirely serious: How is mouse support in Blink? I've been searching online and can't find a good answer. I regularly use the mouse in Terminal.app to manipulate Tmux windows and move around in the Micro text editor. I am curious about Blink, but hesitant to drop $20 if it turns out it doesn't work the way I need it to for terminal usage.
  - mbreese 7y ago
    It isn’t great at the moment. Something broke in the recent update to break text selection, which is what I was trying to use a mouse for. But, the author is working on a fix. I don’t know how good the mouse works uses other than selection, but mouse support in general isn’t great at the moment. But Blink is the app I use for SSH/mosh on the iPad too.

catalogia 7y ago

> But what’s the alternative? Local development with syncing back to a server? That basically describes TRAMP mode, right? It works well.