I use the auto-complete feature quite a bit, myself.
M-. type<tab><down-arrow> is a relatively common use for me.
On 2015 May 04 (Mon) at 11:09:08 -0400 (-0400), Okan Demirmen wrote:
:I actually think that feature should be removed; cwm shouldn't need to
:re-implement kwown_hosts parsing just for auto-completion. For simple
:entries, it has worked, but when once there are multiples or even v6
:addresses, it's too much for a window manager to do all this just for
:auto-completion.
:
:Curious what other usage is of this ssh thing. It could be replaced
:with a simple 'ssh' menu that just takes the host argument; or
:nothing....
:
:Alex - your point is taken though, solution might be more dramatic though :)
:
:On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Alex Greif <alex.gr...@greifdesign.net> wrote:
:> Hi,
:>
:> just installed the current snapshot and I am running cwm.
:> M-. should spawn the 'ssh to' dialog.
:> It works fine if the known_hosts file exists (with entries or blank does not
:> matter),
:> but the dialog is not spawned if the file is missing.
:>
:> IMO the dialog should be spawned also if the known_hosts file is missing,
:> otherwise
:> I have to open a new shell and type in 'ssh ...' first, to get the
:> known_hosts file created,
:> and this should not be a special case for the 'ssh to' functionality.
:>
:> Sorry for the noise if the current behaviour is intended, but I could not
:> read about it in
:> the man page.
:>
:> thanks,
:> Alex.
:
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