I have been using a free SSH app on my phone for a little while but stopped because using VIM mostly broke it. Now after some updates I seems to have a limited number of key strokes before it expires. So now seems like a good time to shop around.
There are the requirements:
- Can emulate color
- Can run VIM, though being able to run EMACS would be cool too.
- It does not have to be free.
- it must run on a non jail broken phone.
What is everyone else using? What do you suggest?
Best Answer
Being the fanboy that I am, I completely admit that I am absolutely in love with Prompt (by Panic). It's already come a long way since it's initial release, and here's a few wonderful features;
It's not cluttered. They provided an app that offers what you need out of an SSH client and added a few bonuses that make it so much more worthwhile.
Command, and parameter, auto-completion. (Oh my god this is amazing.)
Public/Private key authentication support. Well documented, and also quite improved in recent versions with regard to how to load the actual key.
Leveraging the amount of free space in the meta key bar, you can assign 4 "favorite special character keys", so pick the ones you use most often so you rarely have to hit the 123 keyboard key, or worse, the #+= key. I currently have /\.- chosen.
Prompt is $8 (universal app!) on the iTunes App Store.