I was downloading putty while using my Mom's laptop, and of course just
did a Google search for it. I wondered if other types of putty made the
first page of search results, so I scanned down the page... and stumbled
upon
Putty Tray, a
weirdly named fork of the putty code base, named after a feature where
you can minimize putty to the icon tray in windows... but it also
finally supports hyperlinkikng of URLs. This has been a feature of
various xterms and clones for years that I've come to depend on,
especially since I use a
console mail
client. I use it often in gnome-terminal, but often have fun
cutting and pasting urls in putty, especially multi-line ones. Its been
on the
wishlist for putty for years, marked as tricky and oddly behind adding scripting support. In any case, my first url click worked great, I might just be updating all of my putty installations to putty tray.
Oh, and there's only one non-putty ssh client related link on the first
page of search results, for Putty World. This could be because I prefer
putty the ssh client (I search for the download link probably a dozen
times a year at least) and the "personalization"... but usually its from
a new computer without being logged in, so maybe not. It could also be
because the URL for putty is so non-memorable.. if it was just
www.putty.org or something, I'd never search for it.
