SSH client: a terminal on another machine (#2)
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The SSH App opens one session to a shell, over libssh (LibSSH-ESP32 5.10.0)
on mbedTLS. A server is trusted the first time on its fingerprint, and a
changed key is a warning with Cancel selected. The password is typed each
time and kept nowhere; or the device makes itself an Ed25519 key, whose
public half is shown, written to /ssh/id_ed25519.pub and printed by
`ssh status`.

lib/term is the terminal: what a shell, less, top, nano and vim send, with
sixteen colours, scroll regions, the alternate screen and 100 lines of
scrollback. Five text sizes with Ctrl and + or -, from 60x20 to 26x8, told
to the far end. The session goes on when the App is left; SSH shows in the
Status Bar. `ssh user@host` in the Shell opens the App.

Also:
- Keys that aren't characters carry Shift, Ctrl and Alt. The terminal needs
  it, and it makes Ctrl+Fn+up/down in a note and Shift+Tab in Gemini work
  from the real keyboard.
- IRC doesn't try to connect under 60 KB free: started with a session open,
  its TLS handshake took the heap down to 236 bytes.
- libssh's own curve25519 is left out of the build (scripts/libssh_filter.py):
  libsodium's has the same names.

Costs 292 KB of flash and about 50 KB of heap while a session is open; not
started under 75 KB free.

Docs: guide page, how-to, FAQ, home page, Status Bar, SD card folders, the
memory how-to, README, glossary, N1 notes with Q254 to Q266 and the checks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhqxQ49eCju4CzKYNjZzwT
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2026-10-08 04:38:36 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 7223147f26
commit 6b71aace4f
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@@ -43,6 +43,15 @@ KeyEvent charEvent(uint32_t cp, const RawKeys& keys) {
return e;
}
// A key that isn't a character, with what was held: a terminal tells Alt+Enter from Enter (issue #2).
KeyEvent keyEvent(Key key, const RawKeys& keys) {
KeyEvent e = KeyEvent::of(key);
e.shift = keys.shift;
e.ctrl = keys.ctrl;
e.alt = keys.alt;
return e;
}
} // namespace
std::vector<KeyEvent> KeyMapper::update(const RawKeys& keys) {
@@ -51,9 +60,9 @@ std::vector<KeyEvent> KeyMapper::update(const RawKeys& keys) {
if (keys.opt && !previous_.opt && keys.chars.empty()) {
compose_ = compose_ ? 0 : kArmed; // a second opt cancels
}
if (keys.enter && !previous_.enter) out.push_back(KeyEvent::of(Key::Select));
if (keys.del && !previous_.del) out.push_back(KeyEvent::of(Key::Delete));
if (keys.tab && !previous_.tab) out.push_back(KeyEvent::of(Key::Tab));
if (keys.enter && !previous_.enter) out.push_back(keyEvent(Key::Select, keys));
if (keys.del && !previous_.del) out.push_back(keyEvent(Key::Delete, keys));
if (keys.tab && !previous_.tab) out.push_back(keyEvent(Key::Tab, keys));
for (char c : keys.chars) {
bool wasHeld = std::find(previous_.chars.begin(), previous_.chars.end(), c) != previous_.chars.end();
@@ -89,10 +98,10 @@ void KeyMapper::onChar(char c, const RawKeys& keys, std::vector<KeyEvent>& out)
if (keys.fn || !textEntry_) {
switch (c) {
case ';': out.push_back(KeyEvent::of(Key::Up)); return;
case '.': out.push_back(KeyEvent::of(Key::Down)); return;
case ',': out.push_back(KeyEvent::of(Key::Left)); return;
case '/': out.push_back(KeyEvent::of(Key::Right)); return;
case ';': out.push_back(keyEvent(Key::Up, keys)); return;
case '.': out.push_back(keyEvent(Key::Down, keys)); return;
case ',': out.push_back(keyEvent(Key::Left, keys)); return;
case '/': out.push_back(keyEvent(Key::Right, keys)); return;
case '`':
if (keys.fn) {
out.push_back(KeyEvent::of(Key::Home));
@@ -126,7 +135,7 @@ void KeyMapper::onChar(char c, const RawKeys& keys, std::vector<KeyEvent>& out)
}
}
if (c == '`') {
out.push_back(KeyEvent::of(Key::Back));
out.push_back(keyEvent(Key::Back, keys));
return;
}
out.push_back(charEvent(static_cast<unsigned char>(c), keys));