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@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ terminfo files to the server::
 
     kitty +kitten ssh myserver
 
+This ssh kitten takes all the same command line arguments
+as ssh, you can alias it to ssh in your shell's rc files to avoid having to
+type it each time.
+
 If for some reason that does not work (typically because the server is using a
 non POSIX compliant shell), you can use the following one-liner instead (it
 is slower as it needs to ssh into the server twice, but will work with most