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

[Mikko Ohtamaa]

>
> Another way I've achieved that is to create a port forwarding from the
> remote machine to port 22 on my local machine, e.g. with
> "RemoteForward 2222 localhost:22" in my .ssh/config.
>
> Then I just have to do "scp -P 2222 somefile localhost:" and I copied
> it back to my workstation. Even easier if ssh keys are used. I also
> have a host alias "home" defined in my .ssh/config on some remote
> hosts, so that boils down to an easy to type and remember "scp
> somefile home:".
>
> I even wrote a mutt macro, so that if I press "x" on some attachment,
> it gets copied to my local machine and then an appropriate viewer is
> called on my local machine, too. (Unfortunately GDM3 fucked up that
> setup by putting the .Xauthority file somewhere else.)
>
>
>

Thanks Alex. I think your answer pretty much summarizes *why* we need
something with better integration options :)


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