Coloring of syntax in SSH sessions

Feature Requests Royal TS (for Windows)
1

Dear,

it would be very helpfull if you could make it so that certain words in SSH session get a color.

It would also be nice if you could choose those words and colors freely or use a template such as ‘Cisco network devices’ or ‘Linux distributions’.

Your competitors such as MobaXterm and Devolutions already have this possibility.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Themes within RoyalTS
2

Rebex allows it already: http://blog.rebex.net/howto-terminal-color-schemes/

3

Color schemes and highlighting of individual (custom) keywords based on regex are two separate things. Color schemes are already supported in Royal TS:

https://content.royalapplications.com/Help/RoyalTS/V4/index.html?reference_terminalrebex_colors.htm

You can even define your own color palette there.

This also applies to the PuTTY plugin.

Regards,
Stefan

4

To make it clear: it’s the highlighting of keywords that I’m talking about.

5

Thanks for the clarification. As reflected on the status here, this is planned and will hopefully make it into the next major release.

Regards,
Stefan

6

Is there any vague idea as to when I can expect this feature to become available?

7

We have a rough prototype ready but it’s not yet production quality. As mentioned above it will be part of the next major release but this will take a while. We will probably have a beta with the feature included in a couple of months…

I’m sorry I can’t be more specific.

8

Will I be alerted when this beta version will become available?

9

If you are watching this topic, you should get a notification once we have something to test.

Regards,
Stefan

10

Any news yet?

11

Hi,

we already started with the implementation. This is on the roadmap for the next major version. A schedule for a beta is not yet available, sorry.

Regards,
Stefan

12

Any news?

13

Implementation is already done but we still haven’t released a beta version yet. Unfortunately there are still other things we have to do before we can release our first beta version for Royal TS V5.

Regards,
Stefan

14

I’m sorry for the delay. We expect a first public beta within the next month or two. Stay tuned…

15

I had the v5 beta for a time and didn’t see any keyword highlighting available. Did it not make it into this beta?

16

Can I have an update on this, please?

17

I’m sorry for the confusion. The text highlighting configuration is in the current beta. Go to the Colors page and select the tab Text Highlighting.

Totally forgot, that I moved the configuration to the Colors page :wink: Sorry about that…

Regards,
Stefan

18

It looks like these are only available for Rebex connections? Is there nothing for Putty based connections? We have well over 100 putty based connections, if Rebex is the only way, is there a way to bulk change our existing connections?

19

Hi Adam,

you are right, this is only available for Rebex based connections. The reason we cannot support that for PuTTY based connection is simply because PuTTY does not support that feature. The way PuTTY is integrated is very simple and we actually just start PuTTY.exe. If PuTTY implements this feature and we can control is by writing the configuration to the registry as we do with all the other PuTTY settings, we can also enable this for PuTTY.

Switching your existing connections from PuTTY to Rebex in bulk is quite simple. Check out this short videos on how to use the dashboard and the bulk-edit feature:

https://www.royalapplications.com/go/kb-ts-win-folderdashboard
https://www.royalapplications.com/go/kb-ts-win-bulkedit

For new objects, use the Aplication -> Default Sertings folder to setup all the default values.

Let me know if this helps.

Regards,
Stefan

20

Thanks Stefan,

This is great info, but it doesn’t seem to allow me to change it to Rebex. When I bulk edit I am only allowed to change the terminal type within putty. For instance, I can change them to telnet or serial, but they’re still putty based.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Adam