PuTTY wish plink-terminal

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summary: Terminal emulation in Plink
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: tricky: Needs many tuits.
priority: never: We don't ever intend to fix this.

Plink is designed as a data transport tool, and is not intended for interactive use; as such it performs no interpretation on the data it transfers.

However, people occasionally ask for an option in Plink to handle terminal escape codes, so that you get `PuTTY in a console window'.

Unless there's some good reason why running PuTTY full-screen isn't enough to address this wish, we're unlikely to consider it worth the extra effort and code bloat.

We have actually been given one vaguely good reason: it's been suggested that this might improve the experience of people using screen readers. However, fixing `windows-scrollopt' should have the same effect and probably be easier.

Perhaps it's possible to augment the Windows console with terminal emulation capabilities à la ANSI.SYS?

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2003-10-20 22:34:25 +0000)