Hey,
I just wanted to raise a feature request to make Putty’s own reconnect feature available to use.
I found it is already available, even though a bit cumbersome to reach, by using the “system menu” button on the “actions” ribbon tab (Reconnect PuTTY session without wiping history) - I assume most people have the ribbon minimized by default to save precious vertical screen space.
I understand the technical reasons to not replace the regular “reconnect” function with this function, but I heartily support making it more prominently available.
Rebooting servers or devices, network disconnects, etc. are all pretty regular activities for me and keeping the existing scrollback is quite valuable most of the time.
Of course, this requires to configure the Putty sessions accordingly (only close on clean exit, or never close), but that’s not a real hurdle.
Have you made any inroads into figuring out if it’s possible to wire this functionality to something a bit easily reachable, Stefan?
Other connection management software does it, so it’s technically possible at some level.
Having it in a connection’s context menu (and perhaps also configurable as a double-click action) would be a big usability improvement.
Maybe it could even be added to the “disconnected session” tab?
But I think that is not an overlay on the existing window, i.e. it only appears after the scrollback is already gone forever.
Thank you for your consideration. 