Blink is a great and open source SSH/Mosh client for iPad.
Re:Mosh
by earthboundkid on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @02:54PM
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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.
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.
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