It reads. So if I install a package, fine, I get the terminal output. What it doesn't seem to do is edit. I've installed nano and most things don't seem to work. On the Mac, I can move with the arrows, ctrl-left/right moves by word, and so on. That doesn't seem to work in Ish on iOS.
Anybody have tips? Alternatively, is there something other than Ish that does better? Note I want this to run on the phone, I'm not trying to connect to another Unix system. Well, unless there's a way to run my Mac from the phone? I don't think there is but that might do something, if I could connect to the Mac and just run its terminal. Seems like just using the phone would be simpler and easier though.
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Editors in iOS shells
Honestly, no matter what shell-type interface I've ever used, I've never had any success with text editors. A-shell, which is what I'm using for most of this doesn't work either.
The only solution I know is basically, use a native iOS text editor to edit files. In the case of iSH, make sure iSH is available in the files app, and just use an iOS text editor to edit the file you need.
The problem with that.
It might work, but I'm trying to do something weirdly specific. There's a client for a BBS I'm on. In order to edit posts, it calls an external editor. It makes a temp file, you edit that and save it, and then it posts it if you tell it to and deletes the file. It's possible an external editor could work, but I'm kind of skeptical. Worth a try though, I guess.
Have you tried Ish? Would you recommend yours over it? I only picked it because I saw it on here ages ago. I haven't done a ton with it so I'd be perfectly happy to switch to something else. I use Home Brew on Mac so anything closer to that would be great.
Ed or Edbrowse
You could try using ed or edbrowse. Those editors are line editors, meaning the whole file is not displayed on screen, but you type a command and it gives you the output of that command, just like Bash does. That interface should work much better on iSH or A-Shell if you learn how to navigate and edit files that way.