When I decided to try to fix this annoyance, my working assumption was that there was something in the SSH server configuration causing the hiccups. That the web server is halfway across the country makes it all the more frustrating when I have a choppy terminal session to the Mac that’s no more than 20 feet away from me. When I log into the Linux box that hosts this blog, both terminal programs are smoothly responsive. This is not a bug in Prompt or Textastic. I often just don’t know where the cursor is on the Mac because it’s not necessarily where I see it on the iPad. This leads to typos that take a while to correct because repetition on the ⌫ key also outruns the display. I am by no means a fast typist, but I regularly get ahead of the display. The most common key I use is ↑ to rerun the last command.īut when I do need to construct and run longer commands, I’ve noticed a lag between the keyboard and the screen. The responsiveness of the SSH connection to the Mac isn’t important to my productivity. Since a lot of the terminal work I do isn’t complex, and consists of repeated invocations of pdflatex report Running commands is done through either Textastic’s internal terminal, which works well enough for simple stuff, or Prompt, which has more robust terminal emulation and is better for more complex sessions. Editing files is done in Textastic and synced to the Mac through iCloud (used to be through Dropbox). A lot of the work I do “on” my iPad consists of me essentially using the iPad as a terminal to edit files and run commands on one of my iMacs.
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