[mosh-devel] Application specific agents, side-channel file transfers and triggers

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

some non-mosh answers as I think there already exist solutions.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:23:54AM +0300, Mikko Ohtamaa wrote:
> - It is pain to edit files on the server over terminal using terminal
> editors like vi, emacs or nano if you are used to GUI editors like Sublime
> Text or TextMate.

Same counts vice versa. ;-)

> - It would be nice that you could somehow invoke a local text editor to
> edit remote files

At least for Emacs users (Emacs can be used locally with a GUI, too!
;-), for at least a decade there is TRAMP: Transparent Remote Access,
Multiple Protocols. See http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TrampMode
and https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/ -- not sure if a similar thing
exists for other editors, but at least DreamWeaver could edit stuff
via SFTP or FTP, too.

> As far as I know adding such application specific support in SSH would be
> major pain

SSH allows arbitrary port forwardings. I'd expect that this suffices
for such stuff, so I don't seem the need to do such stuff application
specific.

> where one of the pain points is that SSH community is perceived as
> archaic for modern developers.

I think that's a little harsh. There are also "modern developers"
which still prefer Emacs or vim over Eclipse or other bells and
whistles GUI IDEs.

Hmmm, well, likely depends of what you mean by the term "modern
developers". :-)

		Kind regards, Axel
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