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I would really love to see an adapter layer on top of Mosh, so that it can be a drop-in replacement for an SSH client. Currently even after you install it on your servers you have to change your scripts and learn new CLI options. I know that there are reasons for these differences, but inability to alias `ssh` to `mosh` or hypothetical `mosh-ssh` hurts adoption.

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What new CLI options? Mosh pretty much doesn't have any, you use SSH if you want to do what SSH does.

Stuff like connecting to different port, you need to do --ssh="ssh -p 1111"

Oh, that's because you're running SSH under the hood. I see what you mean, having the port be passed to SSH would be better from a UX standpoint, but the thing is that mosh doesn't do everything SSH does, so it would need to fake every SSH option and then pass them through. As it is, you only need to learn --ssh and you can do "--ssh=ssh -D 8223 -L 1234:localhost:1234" etc.

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