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I'd been using touchterm for a while, and had experimented with other iOS ssh clients. They... worked, but the experience always felt a bit clunky. I've been

by jimwise 15y ago

I'd been using touchterm for a while, and had experimented with other iOS ssh clients. They... worked, but the experience always felt a bit clunky. I've been using prompt for a day now, and so far it feels better than the others. The app design feels really clean, the method of expanding the keyboard to handle modifier keys and frequently-used non-alpha keys works well without grabbing too much screen real estate (this is clearly visible in the screen shots for what it's worth). Finally, the terminal emulation has been flawless for me so far. Emacs runs well (and is quite usable with Prompt's modifier key placement, unlike in other iOS ssh clients I'd tried; remember, folks, ESC is Meta, Meta is ESC). touchTerm had some screen lag/partial refresh issues for me with Emacs -- these may have been fixed in later versions, though, as I gave up at some point. In short, I like it. obDisclaimer: I don't know the developers. I don't have a dog in this fight. I do like the app. I'm not the only one who likes it though -- see the daringfireball take here: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/14/prompt http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/14/prompt

dhimes 15y ago
I just bought it. It is slow and unresponsive to me- I have to wait for the screen to catch up with my typing. I'm on an iPhone4- so it's not like I'm typing fast. Nice, clean design though.
- mitchty 15y ago
  Been lurking on HN for a while, finally decided to comment for once. Same experience on a 3gs (I've been waiting for the white 4, not sure why anymore), painfully slow to do anything, including just closing a connection. I just gave up waiting and let tcp time it out. The biggest killer of being able to use it was readline support is horrid. First thing I did was login and escape-/ + ssh + n a few times and half the screen turned into some amalgamation of things that matched ssh. I didn't try emacs readline support but expect its about the same. Interface is spot on, but it has a long ways to go before it can do basic terminal work. iSSH is still going to be on my homescreen for a while it looks like.
ludwigvan 15y ago
Does `C-space` work for you? I currently use M-x set-mark-command instead. Other than that, emacs seems to work without issues! (Also, backspace was sending C-h, so I had to remap that in emacs.
- jimwise 15y ago
  Try ESC-@, which runs mark-word -- once you have the mark set, you can expand/contract the region as normal by moving point.

by jimwise 15y ago

dhimes 15y ago

I just bought it. It is slow and unresponsive to me- I have to wait for the screen to catch up with my typing. I'm on an iPhone4- so it's not like I'm typing fast. Nice, clean design though.

mitchty 15y ago
Been lurking on HN for a while, finally decided to comment for once. Same experience on a 3gs (I've been waiting for the white 4, not sure why anymore), painfully slow to do anything, including just closing a connection. I just gave up waiting and let tcp time it out. The biggest killer of being able to use it was readline support is horrid. First thing I did was login and escape-/ + ssh + n a few times and half the screen turned into some amalgamation of things that matched ssh. I didn't try emacs readline support but expect its about the same. Interface is spot on, but it has a long ways to go before it can do basic terminal work. iSSH is still going to be on my homescreen for a while it looks like.

ludwigvan 15y ago

Does `C-space` work for you? I currently use M-x set-mark-command instead. Other than that, emacs seems to work without issues! (Also, backspace was sending C-h, so I had to remap that in emacs.

jimwise 15y ago
Try ESC-@, which runs mark-word -- once you have the mark set, you can expand/contract the region as normal by moving point.