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Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by keithwinstein on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:41PM (#28151583)
Mosh original author here -- fun to see us back here yet again. Happy to answer any questions.
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by diekhans on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:11AM (#28151812)
All I can say is THANK YOU!!! I use mosh 10+ hours a day. Maybe it needs a bit of help, but it is in my top 10 of "how did I accomplish anything with out mosh.
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by arthurcolle on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:18AM (#28151857)
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Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by nmstoker on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:26AM (#28151909)
It looks like there's no sponsorship for Mosh. Had this been considered?

Not saying money would solve the challenges the maintainer faces but there might be things it eases. With a tool this popular I expect it wouldn't struggle to raise a fair bit.

Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by eminence32 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:44AM (#28156250)
I don't think it's been considered. To be honest, sometimes adding money to a development projects makes things worse. It can sometimes introduce new unwanted obligations that weren't there previously.
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by cpach on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:51AM (#28152090)
Thank you for writing mosh. It’s an awesome tool, especially when using the laptop on a train.
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by na85 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:42PM (#28151595)
Are you planning on addressing some of the long-standing issues relating to e.g. Unicode rendering?
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by keithwinstein on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:51PM (#28151671)
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151652 , but happy to discuss further if you want.
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by hcrean on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:09AM (#28156563)
It is a VERY useful tool that I have used every day for at least 3 years.

There are two really annoying niggles that I have with it, but both I have solved by using a Screen session on the server:

- Scrolling turns out to be very important to most workflows. The choice to start mosh in Append mode (with chance of output corruption) rather than replace mode would be a cool thing.

- There is no easy way to pick up a session again when the client dies. I understand that this is an intended security "feature" though.

But beyond this it is a truly fabulous tool that has saved me many many hours of frustration.

Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by keithwinstein on Thursday August 12, 2021 @06:18PM (#28162309)
We have the "append mode" -- run `mosh --no-init` and it does what you'd like.
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by hcrean on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:18PM (#28164144)
Thank you, this is better, but if I cat a 1000 line file I can only scroll up about 150 lines, I think this has something to do with the speed of the output(?); how does this work under the hood?
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by jhrmnn on Friday August 13, 2021 @02:07AM (#28165962)
Such an indispensable tool! I’m running mosh+tmux 24/7 on my remote desktop and every day just open my laptop, connect to VPN and continue where I left off the previous day
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by jwr on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:13PM (#28158095)
Thank you for creating a fantastically useful tool. I use it every day, it works very well, and I'd be happy to contribute to your Github sponsors account.
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by mcstafford on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:21AM (#28152652)
I'm unable to use mosh after switching VPN clients, though ssh works. What should I discuss and/or request with the security+network folks?
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by lhoff on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:00AM (#28152946)
Its probably that the port range that Mosh uses is blocked. Per default mosh uses a UDP port between 60000 and 61000.
Re:Mosh: The Mobile Shell by slim on Friday August 13, 2021 @04:45AM (#28166824)
Vim or emacs ? (serious question)