Issue with SFTP URIs and grouped hosts

[lanceschi]

Hello @Julien-R44,

and thanks for the beautiful fast-ssh TUI app!

I'd like especially the possibility to group the various hosts just prefixing them with a word/string and a slash:

Host Development/alpha
    Hostname 1.2.3.4
    User superman
    IdentityFile /keys/personal.pem
    ServerAliveInterval 60

The only issue I'm facing is with nautilus SFTP URI bookmarks. For example the above host would translate into an invalid:

sftp://Development/alpha/home/superman

The ugly workaround I found this far is to add a second Host reference to the first one in the ~/.ssh/config:

Host Development/alpha
Host alpha
    Hostname 1.2.3.4
    User superman
    IdentityFile /keys/personal.pem
    ServerAliveInterval 60

In order to let me correctly reference the host in SFTP URIs:

sftp://alpha/home/superman

Do you know by any chance how to escape Development/alpha?

Thanks in advance

[Julien-R44]

Hello, thank you very much! I don't have a Linux computer at hand so I can't answer you right now. It doesn't seem to me that there is a way to escape anything in an SSH config file, but I will check that. What I can tell you is that I plan to add another way to make groups for fast-ssh via comments, like this:

# FastSSH
#   Group Development
#   AnotherMetaDataKey Foo
Host alpha
    Hostname 1.2.3.4
    User superman
    IdentityFile /keys/personal.pem
    ServerAliveInterval 60

This should solve your problem. I hope to implement this in the next few weeks !

[lanceschi]

That new implementation for groups would be great!

[lanceschi]

Please consider also an inline solution:

Host alpha
    # FastSSHGroup Development
    Hostname 1.2.3.4
    User superman
    IdentityFile /keys/personal.pem
    ServerAliveInterval 60

It would be more compact and convenient for ~/.ssh/config with a lot of entries.

[r3h0]

A similar issue comes up with scp. When I type scp group/host1:/ and hit TAB, the auto-complete fails to understand the path. With names like scp group-host1:/ it successfully completes the possible options. This ended up being a deal breaker for me (for now anyway) since it's easier to remember my SSH hosts than to remember the exact paths on each one.

[r3h0]

@Julien-R44, I love the idea of configuring FastSSH through comments in my SSH config file. Would I be able to configure the colors that way also? I default to light mode (sad, I know) and the foreground text being white is a problem for me. Let me know if you want a separate issue for that.