Offering different public keys

[david-perez]

Thanks for this useful plugin and your talk in VimConf.

I see that the distant binary has support for setting identity_files.

However, I can't figure out what to feed the :DistantLaunch command so that it parses the ssh.identity_files input into something that mlua can smoothly deserialize into a Vec<PathBuf>, e.g.

:DistantLaunch my.host.com ssh.identity_files=["~/.ssh/id_rsa_distant"]

[chipsenkbeil]

@david-perez I think this is a limitation of the input parser for commands not supporting lists.

You may be able to get away with adding a configuration to your host during setup and provide a list in lua, though.

require('distant').setup {
    ['*'] = vim.tbl_deep_extend('force', settings.chip_default(), {
        ssh = {
            identity_files = { '/path/to/.ssh/id_rsa_distant' },
        }
    })
}

For the command to support a list, we'd either need to add list parsing support to the parser or have a check to split a string by comma or some other delimiter similar to how we convert certain settings to a number like ssh.port before passing to the Rust function.

[chipsenkbeil]

Closing out as an outdated issue. With v0.3 being the new branch, feel free to open a new issue against it if this is still a problem.