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Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by carloscabanero »

goerz wrote: post #99
VertexRed wrote: post #98

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But how will you install it on the phone? They only allow installs through App Store.

I haven't tried this myself, but my understanding is that Xcode can install compiled apps directly onto your iOS device, without a jailbreak: http://osxdaily.com/2016/01/12/howto-sideload-apps-iphone-ip...

With a dev license you can install pretty much anything on your device through XCode. And if you do not want to compile but wanna collaborate on the project, we offer the possibility to become a tester of our RAW branch :)

Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by carloscabanero »

matt-attack wrote: post #93
carloscabanero wrote: post #85

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Thanks for the idea, I tried it out but always end up long passing what I'm looking for due to inertia. I would like something smarter like iTerm with the cursor though.

Servauditor's use of it is super usable. No interia at all. A swipe gives one click. It's so fast and pleasant to use. If only Serverauditor didn't fail at typing ctrl-j I'd be using it...

I couldn't really figure out how to scroll on SA. And that font...

Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by kimolas »

carloscabanero wrote: post #55
kimolas wrote: post #26

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I'm a long-time Prompt user, and I just purchased Blink on the App Store after seeing that mapping Caps Lock to CTRL is supported. It does seem to work, although not really as consistently as I'd like it to. I'm using an iPad Air 2 and the Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard, for reference. When I try to use, say, CTRL+V in Vim to do a block selection, it will assume I pressed V by itself unless I hold Caps Lock fo…

We are aware of the "track Caps Lock" problem. iOS actually has an option to disable caps on the accessibility but still doesn't work with external keyboards. Hopefully soon. Thanks for the heads up about the delay. I have only see that problem once with the iPad when I had another combination, do you have any other combination like caps as ESC? I definitely haven't seen that with other keys, and I'm really picky abo…

I think I've figured out why I'm seeing a delay. It must be related to the Caps Lock delay that some keyboards have, wherein the keyboard will prevent Caps Lock from engaging (or even sending any signal at all to an app, apparently) unless the key has been engaged for more than just a tap.

It looks like the only way to fix this would be to buy a keyboard without this feature.

Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by OJFord »

rahoulb wrote: post #92
OJFord wrote: post #87

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In-app purchase?

I'm not an iOS developer myself but I don't think you can switch on screen-size support and high-red graphics as an in-app purchase (unless you have every screen defined twice)

I meant in-app purchase of an 'unlock token', download free new version, verify & obtain new auth token, remove old version.

Convoluted, but better than nothing I'd have thought.

Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by zymhan »

stormbeta wrote: post #59
jlgaddis wrote: post #50

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I'm not "knocking" this app by any means. Just from the comments here, it's obviously a great tool for a lot of people. > ... if I only had a cell phone and my servers were down. I just use my cellphone as a hotspot, my MBP connects to it, and I'm online. Several of my co-workers do the same thing. Is that uncommon? I kinda just assumed that's what most people do (assuming they have a laptop with them, of course).

Ditto. The idea of doing any kind of professional work in a shell via an iOS device doesn't make sense to me at all, and making the shell fancier wouldn't help.

There is the iPad Pro for example. With a 4G connection and a decent terminal, it could be quite useful for managing things on the go.

There's also just the scenario that I don't have my laptop but could really use an SSH terminal and CLI environment at the moment.

Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by rawfan »

VertexRed wrote: post #98
goerz wrote: post #95

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Self-compiling, you mean? I don't think so... just a copy of Xcode

But how will you install it on the phone? They only allow installs through App Store.

It's actually quite easy. You open up the project in Xcode, plug your telephone in and select it as the build-target. Then you click "run" and fix all the problems that come up. You need a Team (you AppleId will suffice), you need to change the bundle-name because the current name is of course owned by another team (the blink shell team). You can change it to something random like com.idontcare123.Blink. Click run again and the App will magically appear on your device.

Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by rawfan »

stormbeta wrote: post #59
jlgaddis wrote: post #50

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I'm not "knocking" this app by any means. Just from the comments here, it's obviously a great tool for a lot of people. > ... if I only had a cell phone and my servers were down. I just use my cellphone as a hotspot, my MBP connects to it, and I'm online. Several of my co-workers do the same thing. Is that uncommon? I kinda just assumed that's what most people do (assuming they have a laptop with them, of course).

Ditto. The idea of doing any kind of professional work in a shell via an iOS device doesn't make sense to me at all, and making the shell fancier wouldn't help.

With an ipad, tmux/emacs/vimand an external keyboard you can use this to actually work without drawbacks and without carrying a laptop around.

Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by rawfan »

mrmondo wrote: post #78
zymhan wrote: post #40

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Well, $20 USD. Not sure what $ you mean. If you aren't SSHing to boxes from a mobile device often enough that $20 doesn't seem worth it, then this likely isn't for you. I for one would pay that at the drop of a hat if I only had a cell phone and my servers were down. It's certainly not much for an everyday productivity tool.

Thats what you're charging for it in Australia (AUD), which really, very high compared to other apps.

The price is around the same if you convert to US$ or Euros. It's high but worth it. If you look at it, this enables programmers to completely work on an iPad with pretty much no drawbacks.

I guess with this price it's not for the casual user. You can compile it yourself (see their Github page) or ask on Twitter to be added to the testers list, so that you receive the raw builds without having to compile them yourself.

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