From: Simon Wistow Date: 19:52 on 11 Jul 2006 Subject: putty - please to be remembering what I told you
From: Simon Wistow Date: 08:43 on 12 Jul 2006 Subject: Re: putty - please to be remembering what I told you On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:52:23PM +0100, me said: > GAH GAH GAH GAH! bloody mail clients.
From: Simon Wistow
Date: 08:45 on 12 Jul 2006
Subject: Re: putty - please to be remembering what I told you
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:43:09AM +0100, I said:
>
> GAH GAH GAH GAH!
>
> bloody mail clients.
Right, found in /tmp/mutt-{mumble}.
Following simple but convoluted instructions my linux machines are all
now fully UTF-8 aware.
HUZZAH!
99% of my Linux time is spent using screen for IRC and mail. Yes, that's
right! That makes me seem really sad but, ask yourself, would someone
who was *that* sad be sitting inside on a gorgeous summer's evening
typing hate filled bile into the internet whilst sucking back on a
bottle of Sauer Apfelkorn in an attempt to blot the hollow, empty
existence of his life out? Would he?
Now that I come to think of it - please, don't answer that.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway. So, sometimes, like now, I'm using the my
housemate's Windows machine (Dear Laptops, why do you *all* of
you die in the same week that I get a tax bill? Luv Simon xxx) and I'm
using Putty.
Putty - fast, small, efficent.
It just seems to work and, as long as you work out the Windows pathing
madness (or just stick it in C:\Windows\System32) it works from the
command line or Run box.
Hurrah.
But ... remember I said I'd got UTF8 working. And how that meant all the
friends who send me stuff in UTF8 like, err, Russian Spammers, get
displayed properly even in mutt and screen? Remember that?
Well it doesn't work in Putty. Not until I left click on the icon in
the top left hand corner of the window (WTF?), click on Change Settings
-> Window -> Translation and switch to UTF8.
Ok, at least I can eventually do it though. Right? Right?!
Does it remember it the next time I fire up a session? Does it sweaty
bollocks floating down the river Cam.
I'm pretty sure that now someone is going to tell me a way to do this. I
will be grateful but will point out (using a paired set of Bludgeoning
Clubs[tm] if necessary) that presuming such a thing *is* possible I've
yet to find it in 5 years of using Putty.
Right, where's that other bottle of German booze?
From: Simon Wistow Date: 08:55 on 12 Jul 2006 Subject: Re: putty - please to be remembering what I told you On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:45:33AM +0100, me said: > Right, where's that other bottle of German booze? It has been pointed out to me that there are, apparently, these things called 'manuals' of which i have previously been unaware. http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-saving I blame the booze. Sweet sweet booze.
From: Simon Wistow Date: 08:59 on 12 Jul 2006 Subject: Re: putty - please to be remembering what I told you On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:55:30AM +0100, me said: > I blame the booze. Sweet sweet booze. Also, in my defence, this doesn't work for me. This probably means my registry is hosed. Expect more hates in due time.
From: Phil Pennock Date: 10:31 on 12 Jul 2006 Subject: Re: putty - please to be remembering what I told you On 2006-07-12 at 08:59 +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:55:30AM +0100, me said: > > I blame the booze. Sweet sweet booze. > > Also, in my defence, this doesn't work for me. This probably means my > registry is hosed. Expect more hates in due time. I vaguely recall being slightly confused at first by the pattern you need to click things to get a PuTTY saved config. But I do have UTF-8 in all my PuTTY sessions except, uhm, this one because this is going to a friend's UTF-8-less Debian box. That, plus the App Paths hack I just detailed in another mail, have me sometimes daring to think that PuTTY's a more usable terminal emulator than XTerm. Pity that I can't figure out a decent font with a _good_ selection of UTF-8 characters, including the line-break hyphen inserted by man(1)'s groff in a UTF-8 environment. That and the lack of a Euro compose sequence; I submitted a bug/feature email but never got a response.
From: David Cantrell Date: 12:58 on 12 Jul 2006 Subject: Re: putty - please to be remembering what I told you On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:55:30AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:45:33AM +0100, me said: > > Right, where's that other bottle of German booze? > It has been pointed out to me that there are, apparently, these things > called 'manuals' of which i have previously been unaware. I prefer the matched pair of bludgeoning clubs.
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 14:27 on 12 Jul 2006 Subject: Re: putty - please to be remembering what I told you > http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-saving The "putty doesn't save configuration when you change your configuration" hate is still entirely valid. Terminal.app hits the same hate buttons as well. If nothing else it ought to save a temporary config when you exit and let you reload it.
From: A. Pagaltzis Date: 10:30 on 12 Jul 2006 Subject: Re: putty - please to be remembering what I told you * Simon Wistow <simon@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-07-12 09:50]: > Does it remember it the next time I fire up a session? Does it > sweaty bollocks floating down the river Cam. Do it before starting a session. Click a config, click load, change the setting you want to change, then switch to the session panel, select the session you'd just loaded, and click save. This also works for the "Default" session. Yes, it's confusing. And there's no way to propagate a config change to all your existing configurations at once, you have to load/change/save them all one by one. But it is what it is, and at least it's doable, and anyway we all know that software's hateful. Regards,
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