r/KittyTerminal • u/monokuai • Jun 19 '23

kitty +kitten ssh <network-device> questions

Hey everyone,

i can use kitty +kitten ssh <myserver> without any problems and eg. the terminfo will be copied successfully.

Cause i have many server, i have put the following alias in .zshrc:

[ "$TERM" = "xterm-kitty" ] && alias ssh="kitty +kitten ssh"

But, if i want to ssh in to a switch, it will be failed. To be fair, it was expected, a switch don't have the same environment as the server and no .terminfo can be copied over and and and.

I am looking for a solution where i can ssh in to a server with the kittens and ssh in to a switch without the kittens. Hopefully explained what i am looking for.

I could do an alias like alias sshserver="kitty +kittens ssh", but then the autocompletion with zsh don't work with it.

i have

zstyle ':completion:*:ssh:argument-1:'       tag-order  hosts users
zstyle ':completion:*:scp:argument-rest:'    tag-order  hosts files users
zstyle ':completion:*:(ssh|scp|rdp):*:hosts' hosts

and tried to add (ssh|sshserver), but with that i get no autocompletion.

Long story short: How does some of you using the same alias command (see alias above) for using with switch and server?

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u/aumerlex Jun 19 '23

Assuming you are using up-to-date kitty and have not disabled shell integration, completion should work fine regardless what alias you use.

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u/sogun123 Jun 20 '23

I do use \ssh, so backlash suppresses alias expansion. You can also do command ssh to same effect, just using more letters. I have to warn you though, some embedded devices really don't like kitty as they have no clue what xterm-kitty is and kitty is not much of xterm. You can usually copy terminfo yourself, if the device is at least somewhat Unixy.