The US$19.99 price is a bit steep to buy sight-unseen. That's more of an App Store problem than Blink's fault. Obviously the price is fine if it works better than Prompt.
It appears to be open source. https://github.com/blinksh/blink
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#22The US$19.99 price is a bit steep to buy sight-unseen. That's more of an App Store problem than Blink's fault. Obviously the price is fine if it works better than Prompt.
It appears to be open source. https://github.com/blinksh/blink
That is correct. You can compile it and install it yourself, or participate in our continuous testing.
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#23The US$19.99 price is a bit steep to buy sight-unseen. That's more of an App Store problem than Blink's fault. Obviously the price is fine if it works better than Prompt.
It does and it's open source. You can ask for improvements, know why something is the way it is, and change it yourself if you need to.
I bought it. I use it on my iPhone and iPad Pro and it's been great.
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#24Does it support Ed25519 keys? This is one of the things that Panic's Prompt still lack support of, and I really miss it :(
Not yet, but we are working on it. We use libssh2 and I'm working on a patch for that.
Yea, just also side note that error messages aren't very good for saying it doesn't support it vs something weird going on with copy and paste.
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#25$31?!
You can build it yourself and load it onto your iOS device should you wish.
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#26How does it compare to Panic's Prompt?
Three things: - Mosh & SSH support: In Prompt and any other iOS ssh client, connections break every 3 minutes. With Mosh that isn't a problem. - Full external keyboard support: Alt as Esc, Caps as Ctrl, you can have your terminal as you do in your desktop/laptop. - Speed and rendering: Blink uses Google's HTerm, so it is faster and you can add your own themes and fonts.
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 for about half a second before pressing V. Furthermore, it will toggle the Caps Lock light on my keyboard (which I understand can't be fixed), which is a problem because if I exit Blink, the Caps Lock key is now reversed if I exited Blink while the Caps Lock key was still active.
Perhaps there's a way to track if Caps Lock had been pressed an even or odd number of times, and send some signal back to the OS to correct this behavior?
I'm not sure what needs to be fixed in order to get the Caps Lock functionality to work without a delay.
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#27can I map ⌘ to meta?
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#28can I map ⌘ to meta?
You can map ⌘ to Ctrl or ESC, very useful for Emacs :)
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool, thanks. :-) I just bought the app and play with it for few minutes, here's some quick feedback: 1. Love the fact the interface is just a CLI! 2. But would be nice if content of `help` was shown by default. `blink>` wasn't very helpful ;-) 3. Ability to bind Caps Lock to "ESC on tap, Ctrl on Hold" would be really cool. Otherwise I really like what I'm seeing so far. Finally Mosh client on my iPad Pro! Edit: and…
Thanks a lot for the feedback!! You can actually do number 3. On Config > Keyboard select Caps as Ctrl at the modifier section, and also toggle the Caps as ESC. That will give you Ctrl on hold, and ESC on tap. :)
Does caps->ctrl work on the iPad Pro smart keyboard?
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#30Does it allow you to verify fingerprints? [Hopefully with the new & improved case-sensitive SHA256 format as well? :)]
Heh, I have the opposite problem with Prompt - none of my OpenSSH packages are new enough to use the new format, so I can't cross-reference with a known-good SHA-1 fingerprint. Turns out you can run
cut -d' ' -f2 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub | base64 -d | openssl sha256 -binary | base64