I suggest an extension to Blink, giving basic shell commands inside the shell (cp, rm, mv...) This might help user in managing their private keys, or storing files locally.

This is based on GNU coreutils, edited so they compile for iOS and work as functions instead of commands. For each command (e.g. "ls") I rename its main function (e.g. "ls_main"), and call this function from inside MCPSession.m

The full list of commands available: cd ln ls cp mv rm mkdir rmdir touch pwd setenv env printenv id groups realpath uname

For more functionalities, I suggest also compiling VimIOS and creating an App Group, so the two apps can share files. Once this is done, you can edit files in VimIOS and copy/delete them in Blink.

Only a small set of the GNU coreutils are available: some of them don't make sense in a sandboxed environment (kill, nohup, nice, chown), others don't work in a function because of local variables (df), still others send their output to STDOUT_FILENO instead of stdout, which was too complicated to change (cat).

I've got blink (latest from the raw branch) installed on my iPad running the developer preview of iPadOS 13 and the caps lock remapping no longer seems to work.

I unfortunately am not familiar with the event handling of these key commands so I've not been able to figure out why things broke. keyCommands seems to be returning the correct set of UIKeyCommands (eg. alpha shift modifier + "a"), it just never seems to trigger ctrlSeq: or ctrSeqWithInput:.

On the new iPad Pro, there is a USB-C port. If it exposes HID, it might be possible to support Yubikeys and other similar devices (like smartcards).

On a Mac or Linux, I use the GPG keys stored on a Yubikey for SSH authentication. This is very secure and works well. I would love to use the same setup on an iPad.

Specifically, I'd like to have Blink with a built-in gpg-agent which supports smartcards and yubikeys, to get a setup like this: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide

Steps to reproduce:

1.) Open Blink shell and safari. Put them both in split screen mode.

2.) Type something in blink shell. Tap on the safari window to “focus” to it. Start typing something in the address bar or something.

What happens:

Whatever I type on the safari window seems to still only register in Blink shell. It does not properly focus the keyboard to type only in the safari window.

What should happen:

Whatever I type while I am “focused” on the safari tab or any other app for that matter, should only register keystrokes and characters on that focused tab, not blink.

Is there any workaround for this? It seems as though I have to use both apps full screen and just swipe between them to make this usable. Would be more convenient if I was able to split screen them.

A handful of times today I've switched back to blink from safari or another program only to have blink act as if the "command" key - and possibly some other modifier key - is permanently pressed. That is, I can reproduce this when it happens by watching the blink config menu come up when I hit , inside a vim session. Some keys transfer ok; others (like o) do something else, but I'm not sure what exactly is being sent.

This is also not 100% repeatable; I can't figure out when it happens until it happens. Advice on generating the appropriate logs/info for debugging would be greatly appreciated.

It worked a few hours ago. Then I did the big update and now the IP address cannot be found anymore, even if I set the up address instead of the host name in the settings. It asks me to accept the host public key and then just fails again with „Did not find remote IP address“.

Implement the ProxyCommand parameter to specify a command to use to connect to a server. This is useful (almost a requirement) in conjunction with Agent Forwarding and an ssh-agent #81.

Whenever I load the app, go to Keys -> Add -> Import from Clipboard the app, with no error, generates a new key.

This confused me a for while.

The key works in Terminus (it's a basic RSA key) and having no idea why it doesn't work it not helpful. The app should really tell me what's going on or error.

To clarify, I have pasted the exact same contents of the clipboard into another app and it works fine. In fact said key works everywhere else other than Blink.

Blink 0.916.26

Having to type in your passphrase repeatedly is a pain. It'd be nice if Blink had some sort of equivalent to ssh-agent so I could unlock my keys once when first required (or after some timeout) and they'd be used for all subsequent requests.

There is many issues after I've upgraded to the ios 12

I use blink daily, it is my main tool which I use 90% of my work time (and I currently working only on ipad pro)

Since update to ios 12 there is connectivity issues.

mosh often losing connection. Then sometimes it still keep it open as you can see from video, sometimes screen freezes without mosh notification (that blue ribbon at top);

Very often after I close blink to tray and reopen it, window keep resized (again you can see that on video, it were full-screen);

Checklist

• [x] Using latest version on the App Store
• [x] Read the docs
• [x] Searched for existing GitHub issues

Configuration

I have configured a host on my configuration. alias MiniM1.

Describe the bug

Connecting to it via ssh MiniM1 it works without issues. Now I would like to use the code CLI to remote into the machine.

I run code MiniM1:~/git but I get the error:

  98   │ [info] Mar 19 2022, 18:59:00 FileSystem Registered mount 17 for xxx at blinksftp://MiniM1/~/git
  99   │ [info] Mar 19 2022, 18:59:05 CodeWebSocketServer Connection state update - preparing
 100   │ [info] Mar 19 2022, 18:59:05 CodeWebSocketServer Connection state update - ready
 101   │ [debug] Mar 19 2022, 18:59:05 Optional("minim1") stat /~/git
 102   │ [error] Mar 19 2022, 18:59:05 Connection ::1.49787 Error completing operation - connError(msg: "Socket error: No such file or directory")
 103   │ [info] Mar 19 2022, 18:59:20 FileSystem De-registering mount 17

The folder ~/git Is in place in the remote. Also is very weird the way the string is built up. /~/git. I've tried all the combinations even using the full path but I did not find a solution.

but I've found something interesting

running the command

scp .blink/blinkCode.log MiniM1:~/git

it copies the files into the $HOME dir into the remote machine instead of ~/git

the directory would be found

Will there be any way to use the new official code-server? It is using a secure tunnel provided by microsoft, so I am not even sure if there is anything you can do. I would rather not use it in the web app, however it is a progressive webapp.

https://youtu.be/q2viJSYyKio

Discussed in https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/1661

While blink supports SSH certificates on authentication keys. It appears to not support SSH certificates for host keys (known_hosts). With openssh you can place a CA in your known_hosts starting with @cert-authority <domain wildcard or *>

I tried editing the .ssh/known_hosts file in blink to add the @cert-authority but it was ignored.

Then any host with a certificate signed host key can login without having the specific host key in the known_hosts, and without the 'cache host key' prompt. All explained in detail at https://goteleport.com/blog/how-to-ssh-properly/

Checklist

• [x] Using latest version on the App Store
• [x] Read the docs
• [x] Searched for existing GitHub issues There is no existing issues related to the right click behavior by far I searched.

Configuration

Default configuration.

Describe the bug

What I did: right click on VsCode editor. Both the iOs menu and the VsCode menu are popped up.

Only the VsCode menu should be popped up.

I wonder could we some how implement different behavior for touch mode and the keyboard mode? For touch mode, there should be the system’s right click menu; while for the keyboard and mouse mode, there should be the VsCode’s right click menu.

Please kindly advise!

Thank you very much and have a great day!

I’m using code-server with blink, and enjoying the experience. I mainly use tmux as my code-server profile, but osc52 doesn’t work in that way. However, osc52 works when I’m in ssh session. Can you please help me solve the problem? It’s the one last problem left for my perfect env.

Problem reproduction:

1. Connect to code-server in blink (in my case, $ code https://my-domain.com my-domain.com directs to the server)
2. In code-server integrated terminal, open tmux session ($ tmux new -s anysession)
3. Copy some text by following steps Tips&Tricks
4. Nothing happens

Working situation:

1. Connect to the server with ssh ($ ssh my-server-host)
2. In ssh session, open tmux session
3. Copy some text by the following steps
4. Selected texts are copied to the local(iPad) clipboard.

Any suggestions will be appreciated, Thanks.