PuTTY alt-keys (was Re: 16-User Network)

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>

> > Simon explicitly refuses to include that, saying (properly, I believe)
> > that such issues are the domain of your desktop manager; there are external
> > apps for Windows that do just that,. and he even lists them.
> 
> Simon can be a bit of a dick sometimes, IMNSHO. :)

I don't think it's him being a dick.  He's on the sharp end of one of the 
pointiest support spears in FOSS; *I* wouldn't volunteer to include more
code that was gonna increase my support load either, were I him.

At least he explains, rationally, *why* he will never include some features,
which is more than some projects do... and more than we probably deserve.

> The wm (Windows itself) is defaulted to cascade. Which is just damned
> sloppy. I don't believe a third party app should be required to shim
> between the app and the wm. I respectfully disagree with Simon's
> viewpoint. I can see he's taking the mutt approach...which is fine to
> a point, but even they conceded to pop3 and imap support.

Sure... those are on their critical path: processing mail.

"Where does the window go" is not on the critical path of moving
ASCII.  :-)

> BTW...I had 0.60 here, and just put in 0.61. It -is- faster on ssh 2
> negotiation. Substantially. Not that I use it for more than ssh
> tunnels anymore...

.61 had eluded me; I'll go spin through the release notes.  Thanks.

Cheers,
-- jra
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