how to emulate ctrl key

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I am an android innocent.

I want to ssh into a linux server shell from an android phone. I assume there are apps for this. Once I am logged in I will need oddball items such as square brackets, curly brackets, backticks, and the ctrl key. I have been able to find curly and square brackets on several smart phone keyboards. I can figure my way around the backticks with system() or eval(). But the ctrl key is really a without-which-not. Anyone here know of a geekly way around this?

I am looking at the Motorola Milestone, but not locked in to anything in particular. Is this a suitable smart phone for this kind of work?

I have absolutely zero interest in watching movies, listening to tunes, or any form of social notworking. Only interested in practical work.

Would appreciate your advice.

TIA

 

[MoodyBlues]

I am an android innocent.

Me too! Just starting my second month.

I want to ssh into a linux server shell from an android phone. I assume there are apps for this.

Yep--it's called a terminal emulator, or a command line.

Once I am logged in I will need oddball items such as square brackets, curly brackets, backticks, and the ctrl key. I have been able to find curly and square brackets on several smart phone keyboards. I can figure my way around the backticks with system() or eval(). But the ctrl key is really a without-which-not. Anyone here know of a geekly way around this?

I just tried my terminal emulator (I have a Motorola Bravo) and its settings have options for choosing various keys, including [ctrl]. So, based on my very brief experiment just now, it looks pretty straightforward.

I'm new to Android but not new to Linux--started in 1985 on UNIX. From that experience I can say that the phone--once rooted (which I have not yet done to mine)--with its Linux-based guts, can be tweaked in all sorts of ways. On a "real" *nix computer any key can be remapped in a variety of ways. Depending on which way you want to go with it, you should be able to accomplish what you want either via the terminal's settings as above or the more Linux-like way by changing various files.

 

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What terminal emulator do you use?

 

[MoodyBlues]

What terminal emulator do you use?

It doesn't matter. (The one I use happens to be called "Terminal Emulator." ) ANY terminal emulator will do the same thing, which is give you access to the Linux shell and its power at the command line.