Obscure Emacs Package: ssh-config-mode

There’s this cool blog-o-sphere Emacs party going on, with September’s theme of everything about obscure packages. And woops, I’m a day late to the party, so here goes nothing. The idea is to post a weird package that you use but is sort of obscure!

M-x winny/visit-configuration RET and I’ve selected uhhh…

§ssh-config-mode

ssh-config-mode Syntax highlighting for your SSH configs, known hosts, and authorized keys files. Nuff said. I have the following line in my Emacs configuration.

(use-package ssh-config-mode :ensure t)

I much appreciate ssh-config-mode because it adds reassuring color to SSH configurations. For example, if I typo include, I’ll see black text instead of blue (until I fix the spelling, then the text turns blue, signaling a correct keyword).

ssh-config-mode is an obscure and helpful package.