[HN Gopher] SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient
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       SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient
        
       Author : vaporup
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2022-02-14 21:01 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | sudobash1 wrote:
       | One thing I wish ssh would make easier is terminfo. I have moved
       | from using xterm as my daily terminal emulator to kitty. The only
       | complaint I have is when I ssh around, I need to copy the
       | terminfo to the remote system (kitty does not use
       | TERM="xterm-256color" because it is not 100% compatible).
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       | Kitty does have a ssh wrapper which can copy the terminfo for me,
       | but I rarely remember to use it. And it doesn't work for every
       | scenario. Honestly, I wish that it was more common / feasible to
       | probe terminals for capabilities instead of relying on an env var
       | & terminfo files.
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       | So while I wait for the kitty terminfo to be in the database by
       | default on most systems, I often override TERM to xterm-256color.
        
         | 0x0 wrote:
         | Modern ssh clients support adding a "SetEnv" in .ssh/config,
         | might work for overriding TERM as well
        
         | dijit wrote:
         | I solved this issue by adding                   alias
         | ssh='TERM=xterm-256color ssh'
         | 
         | To my .bashrc/.zshrc
        
       | Timothycquinn wrote:
       | Looks very handy. Thanks for these tools!
        
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