[robotmay]

Hadn't heard of Eternal Terminal before, but I use mosh quite regularly - for portability I remote into my home network via Wireguard on an iPad Pro, using mosh inside Blink shell (https://blink.sh) to connect to my machines. Over 5G and 4G it works very smoothly, but does lag a bit if I drop down to 3G speeds. I very much do not regret getting the 5G version of the iPad as it's super useful, and I prefer this setup to carrying around a hefty workstation laptop. With the magic keyboard attached I basically have a tiny but comfortable laptop, albeit quite top-heavy.

Having to use tmux isn't a hassle for me as I would be using it anyway, and it has the added benefit of being able to connect to my active sessions on another machine and pick up where I left off.

[codetrotter]

I've been using Termius https://termius.com/ios paired with Wireguard for a long while on my iPhone and generally I am happy with Termius as it has very pleasant to use touch interactions both for selecting text and scrolling and performing arrow keys up/down.

However, the big drawback of Termius is that in the free version it will terminate the connection after quite a short while as soon as you put the app in the background. They offer a subscription to have it not behave like this but I don't want to pay a subscription for that feature. (The subscription includes additional features as well, but I don't want any of those features.)

When I read about Blink shell now, I was kind of hoping that it might be a good replacement. I tried it out on my phone, but I am a bit bewildered about how to select text using Blink shell.

I am wondering if maybe Blink shell is mainly suitable for use on iPad, and not as great to use on iPhone. At least, my initial impression is that it is probably fine for use with a keyboard but that it is not made for touch interactions to the same degree that Termius is.

Edit: I figured out how to select text with Blink shell; double tap and drag [1]. Unfortunately it feels quite clumsy and awkward to me compared to Termius. Not just the motion itself, but also how the resulting selection is handled. I will keep trying to use Blink shell for a while though. After all, Blink shell is open source and so if I like it a lot I could maybe rewrite the touch interactions to be more in line with what I'd like them to be.

[1]: https://github.com/blinksh/blink/issues/1116