ssh "!command" escape sequence - does it work?
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Fri Sep 11 14:34:59 UTC 2020
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:14:46PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-09-11 at 13:11 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > Yes, as it's supposed to be. As you say though the rest of the
> > !command escape seems to be, at the very least, not quite what one
> > expects. I've searched around quite a bit but I've not found
> > anything very helpful.
>
> What do you actually want to use it for? I can dimly see how
> LocalCommand might be useful, but I don't get what the escapechar
> version of it would be good for.
>
I read E-Mail using mutt, often via ssh from another computer. To
view PDF (and other) files there's a .mailcap entry that mutt uses,
this is easy to work when you're on the computer where mutt is running
but I want to run the PDF viewer on the remote (client) system. I can
easily copy the files across or make them available to the remote but
firing up a PDF viewer is more difficult. This LocalCommand escape
might be just the job.
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Chris Green
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