Comment by HorizonXP | Hacker News Reader

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I just installed this on my Chromebook with Ubuntu, and on my EC2 instance. I've been very frustrated with the lag I was experiencing while typing in the shell, due to high/variable latency. In my very preliminary testing over the last hour, this has solved my problems almost completely.

Security is less of a concern because I'm running OpenVPN to my instances, so the UDP traffic mosh uses is encrypted anyway, and not open to the public.

One issue I did notice is that irssi isn't refreshing quite as quickly. Seems to lag behind the conversation a bit. I'll have to troubleshoot. I wonder if running byobu/screen is part of the problem.

I also run a similar setup and am trying out mosh now. I agree re: the lag in irssi. Additionally, if I start typing into irssi and then rapidly delete the text, I can delete the channel name temporarily:

    [#startups] I was thiknin^H^H^H^H^H^H
    [#start

Yeah, this is due to their clever predictive local echo not being that clever all the time. When the client sees that sending ^H actually results in character disappearing, it imitates that behaviour locally for next ^H:s making you experience less lag. Most of the time it works well but there's these edge cases with funny results.

Well, my simple solution would be to delete the channel name from the prompt because it does not serve me any purpose. Too bad I don't actually know how to do this in irssi, I already looked for an option.

You can use "/statusbar prompt disable" (and "/save" to make it persistent).

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