mar...@martinbrandenburg.com wrote:

> > From owner-misc+M164041=martin=martinbrandenburg....@openbsd.org Sat Apr 22 
> > 21:43:17 2017
> > Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:42:55 -0400
> > From: Predrag Punosevac <punoseva...@gmail.com>
> > To: misc@openbsd.org
> > Subject: S-nail, ssh, and vi
> >
> > Can anybody help me understand what am I seeing. Namely I am trying to 
> > send an e-mail using S-nail 14.8.12 (the last one which cleanly compiles
> > on OpenBSD). Actual package is 14.8.9. Ever since I upgraded to 6.1 I
> > noticed that if I try to use ~v in order to load my e-mail into vi from
> > the base for editing I have normal behaviour if the existing message is
> > empty but if I had started typing I see
> >
> >
> > ~v [LogLevel VERBOSE]
> > ~v [LogLevel DEBUG]
> 
> You never saw this before 6.1?  It's been this way for years.
> 
> It's coming from ssh.  If you type an escape sequence immediately after
> a newline ssh might recognize it.  Type return followed by ~? in ssh for
> more information.
> 
> ~v/~V won't be of much use unless you're debugging ssh, but you'll wonder
> how you ever lived without some of them.
> 
> ~. will kill a stuck session.
> ~C will let you set up and tear down -L/-R/-D forwardings
> ~^Z will send ssh to the background
> and ~~ will let you type ~ which is most useful for typing this list
> 
> In short, type ~~v for vi when running mail in ssh.
> 
> Martin

Works for me! I only run mail in ssh when I am away from my home to
bypass worning messages from my mail providers. I have never seen this
before. 

Best,
Predrag

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