This package lets you run and kill SSH tunnels. To use it:

• Set the variable ssh-tunnels-configurations, e.g.:

(setq ssh-tunnels-configurations
      '((:name "my tunnel"
         :local-port 1234
         :remote-port 3306
         :login "me@host")))

• Type M-x ssh-tunnels RET

• You should see the list of tunnels; running tunnels will have 'R' in their state column

• To run the tunnel at the current line, type r

• To kill a running tunnel, type k

• You may want to temporarily change a tunnel's local port. To do that you may provide a prefix argument to the run command, for example by typing C-u 1235 r

The package comes with a Helm frontend (M-x helm-ssh-tunnels) as well as completing-read frontends, which can be used with Ido or Ivy (M-x ssh-tunnels-run-tunnel and M-x ssh-tunnels-kill-tunnel).

This package also includes a global minor-mode that automatically starts SSH tunnels when Emacs's built-in open-network-stream function is used. Before a connection is made to a host and port that correspond to a tunnel's host and local port, this mode will make sure that the tunnel is running.

Use M-x auto-ssh-tunnels-mode to enable this global minor-mode.

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