How is this SSH escape sequences when it's actually OpenSSH escape sequences?
They look neat though, better than having to restart the session to forward ports. Too bad it doesn't work in PuTTY.
They look neat though, better than having to restart the session to forward ports. Too bad it doesn't work in PuTTY.
In many European keyboard layouts, including the Finnish layout used by original SSH's author, tilde (~) is a compose key and a chore to type. It is usually expressed by typing AltGr+¨ followed by Spacebar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Keyboards
English is one of the few keyboard layouts where a person can express ~ with one, rather than two, handstrokes. For others, terminating an SSH session with the escape character usually requires blindly typing this four-part sequence: Enter, AltGr+¨, Spacebar, Dot.
I know you can change the escape character with ssh_config(5), but no one who used a non-English layout would have ever chosen ~ as the default to start with. I've always felt like it had to be an OpenSSH-specific feature, because I knew the original author of SSH (before the open-source codebase became OpenSSH) used the same KB layout as myself. ;)
true though.