PuTTY wish reuse-windows

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summary: Ability to re-use dead session windows
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: fun: Just needs tuits, and not many of them.
depends: remove-statics
blocks: reconnect-auto reconnect-remember-password
priority: medium: This should be fixed one day.
fixed-in: 2004-08-15 (0.56) (0.57) (0.58) (0.59) (0.60) (0.61) (0.62) (0.63) (0.64)

Perhaps an inactive window should have a menu option to reactivate the session (like Duplicate Session but in the same window).

We've had one request for a "Duplicate + Kill" option. Perhaps this would be a sensible behaviour if the new "reconnect" option were invoked on a live session. (With suitable prompting, of course.)

(Some people would like this to happen automatically.)

SGT, 2004-08-14: Just implemented a "Restart Session" menu option, on both Unix and Windows PuTTY. Mostly because Owen questioned whether this feature was really easy enough to label as "fun". It hadn't occurred to me before that challenging my competence was a way to motivate me to do stuff :-)

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2004-08-14 13:05:41 +0000)