Eliminate \"-load\" option

RC - Wed 07/11/2012 17:35:56 CET +0100

It shouldn't be necessary to have a -load option at all. Putty/Kitty should take the first arg, and if it matches the name of a profile, load it! But if it doesn't match a profile, try to resolve it as a host name.

WinSCP does the right thing... SecureCRT does the right thing... OpenSSH does the right thing... Only Putty made this sort of brain-dead decision. Using "Launcy" with putty doesn't work sanely (without a plugin) because of this issue. Any and all other command-line usage of Putty/Kitty would benefit from this change as well

Cyd - Mon 12/11/2012 13:16:56 CET +0100

But sometime the session name is equivalent to user@host.
How can it be possible to make the difference between the session name or the direct connection ?

RC - Wed 14/11/2012 00:00:30 CET +0100

The "session" name just needs to have precendence over the host name. If a session named "host" exists, load and use it. If there is no session by that name, try to resolve "host" and connect to it. No problem.

As I said, OpenSSH already does this, and it works extremely well. "Launchy" with the Putty plug-in also behaves like this. In fact, "Plink" also behaves this way, without problems.

And with OpenSSH, "user@" before the session name will override the user name set in the "session". That would be a nice feature to have, as well, but getting rid of "-load" first, is much more important.

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