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Personally, the vibrate on keypress feature is the greatest thing ever (Nexus S), and I'm heartbroken that my fancy new ASUS tablet (TF200T) doesn't support it. Fortunately, it has a (physical) keyboard, so all I need now is a decent SSH implementation. Alternatively, maybe just Ubuntu.

As a side note, you can turn off the vibrate on keypress in the keyboard options. It's separate from the system-wide vibration settings, I think.

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So far, the best thing I've found for my Transformer TF300T is Better Terminal Emulator Pro. It's four bucks, and comes with ssh and vi. The ctrl, tab, and arrow keys all work, and the back key (upper left of keyboard) is remapped to esc.

Unfortunately, the developer appears to be MIA, and the website (which help redirects to) is broken. Still well worth the four bucks.

ConnectBot is the best I've found; though the main branch has never been updated to account for full-size keyboards (it has a few tweaks to let you use ctrl/alt on phone-size keyboards without breaking your fingers, but no way to disable them). I've got a fork sitting in my Github that nixes those tweaks; be warned it was a very quick hack and I never thoroughly tested it so other things could be broken.

https://github.com/ConstantineXVI/connectbot

I've found a few quick Git forks of ConnectBot, I have a harder time finding one that's being maintained. It seems like everyone is very quick to patch (which is awesome), but I don't think the main developer is maintaining ConnectBot anymore, which makes it a bit of a dud from a security perspective.

VXConnectbot

If you have time, it might be worth checking out if you can contribute to VXConnectbot, which seems to be the most maintained fork

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've been using ConnectBot[1] for the past year or so and it has worked great. I've never used it with a physical keyboard, though, so YMMV.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.connectbot

try Hackers keyboard in conjunction with connectbot.

Makes life much better if you don't have a physical keypad.

edit: I should elaborate. You dont really even need connectbot with hackerkeyboard as the multi keypress features aren't needed; HK supports that on itself.

My SSH combo is just Terminal Emulator + hackers keyboard

Hacker's Keyboard is awesome for SSH/terminal.

Stock ConnectBot has a lot of irritating behaviours with a physical keyboard. GitHub presents several dozen forks with something like what I want, but methodically going through and figuring out which are actively maintained and which actually offer everything (back key as ESC, working number+shift, etc.). I'm a VI user, and a lot of forks are optimised for other editors.

VXConnectBot - please contribute!

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