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I personally love Blink https://blink.sh/ it provides a great mosh client.

I haven't used either this or the one in the original submission. What differences stand out the most to you? I'll be trying both out later tonight, but I'm curious to know your thoughts.

I just downloaded a-shell so still playing with it.

What I love about Blink is that it supports mosh and it includes tunnels, ssh-agent etc. out of the box (no need to install anything). It seems very well polished for the purpose of remote work. I have a mosh session open with our deep learning server in the lab 24h (works with network outage etc.).

I assume you can setup the same on A-Shell. Will play with it and update here.

Blink is great, but $20 for a terminal you might use occasionally or emergencies is pretty stiff for me personally.

It's free and opensource on github (if you register as developer for apple).

Edit: spelling error

Registering in the Apple Development program costs $99 (per year) too

That is no longer true.

Registering for an account is free. you can get a signing key for testing (i.e. to build and run on your own device) for free also. You only need to pay if you want to publish to the App Store.

I actually use iphone with blink as my full time working device.

If you only need it on occasion or for emergencies, there's a lot of cheaper options. If you're using it on a daily basis for development work, $20 is a steal! I'd gladly pay $100 for Blink! It's one of the most polished and functional apps on my iPad.

Does Blink support mouse TUIs, like tmux and micro?

yes

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