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Mention saving mid-session and some of its wrinkles.

Formatting tweaks in the same general area.

[originally from svn r5284]
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Jacob Nevins 2005-02-10 01:25:50 +00:00
parent 339242c9bb
commit 07391f0f36

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@ -53,10 +53,12 @@ you want them saved. Then come back to the Session panel. Select the
\q{Default Settings} entry in the saved sessions list, with a single
click. Then press the \q{Save} button.
\lcont{
Note that PuTTY does not allow you to save a host name into the
Default Settings entry. This ensures that when PuTTY is started up,
the host name box is always empty, so a user can always just type in
a host name and connect.
}
If there is a specific host you want to store the details of how to
connect to, you should create a saved session, which will be
@ -69,6 +71,14 @@ Sessions} input box. (The server name is often a good choice for a
saved session name.) Then press the \q{Save} button. Your saved
session name should now appear in the list box.
\lcont{
You can also save settings in mid-session, from the \q{Change Settings}
dialog. Settings changed since the start of the session will be saved
with their current values; as well as settings changed through the
dialog, this includes changes in window size, window title changes
sent by the server, and so on.
}
\b To reload a saved session: single-click to select the session
name in the list box, and then press the \q{Load} button. Your saved
settings should all appear in the configuration panel.
@ -76,7 +86,7 @@ settings should all appear in the configuration panel.
\b To modify a saved session: first load it as described above. Then
make the changes you want. Come back to the Session panel, and press
the \q{Save} button. The new settings will be saved over the top of
the old ones
the old ones.
\lcont{
To save the new settings under a different name, you can enter the new