Using an mc shell (ssh) link over a different port

If you open a shell link in mc (midnight commander) (F9 → Right → Shell link, for example), it'll use a program called fish, which uses port 22 by default, which is of course useless if the ssh server at the other end is using a different port.

An easy way to fix this:

• edit (or create) your ~/.ssh/config
• add a few lines like this:
  Host <name>
  Hostname <hostname or IP>
  Port <port>
  HostKeyAlias <name>
• In my case, I have a "media server" on my local network, which is running sshd on port 1235:
  Host media
  Hostname 192.168.1.68
  Port 1235
  HostKeyAlias media
  
• Now, when mc asks for the machine name, I can just type "media"

It is possible that in later versions of mc this issue has been fixed (I'm running 4.6.1a on Fedora 8).