Around 14 years ago, I switched from using Reflection to PuTTY because it was free and my employer at the time wouldn’t pay for such extravagance software purchases such as a simple terminal emulator! Since then I’ve become rather accustomed to the way PuTTY behaves, and find Reflections particularly annoying to use on the occasion that I visit a client who insists on using it.
However, it is possible to solve most of the biggest annoyances…
Fixed font size – that doesn’t change when you resize the window:
- Menu > Setup > Display… > Fonts
- Untick the “Auto font sizing” option
- Change your font settings to include a size, and change the font if you want to:
Resizing the window changes the number of rows/columns to fit the window:
- Menu > Setup > View Settings…
- Find the “Dynamic Terminal Size” and change it to “Yes”.
- Find the “End of Line Wrap” option and change it to “Yes”
- Click OK
Double clicking select words and paths including any underscores:
- Menu > Setup > View Settings…
- Find the “Word Boundary Exclusive” and remove the underscore from the current list of characters.
- Click OK
Right click copies and pastes the selected text:
- Menu > Setup > Mouse Map…
- Click on the picture of the right mouse button.
- Change the “command field” to “EditCopy EditPaste”
- Click “Map”
Miscellaneous:
- Increase the Display memory to a large number of blocks in Menu > Setup > Display > Screen…
- Make the cursor blink by ticking “Blinks” in Menu > Setup > Display > Screen…
- Reduce the delay between pasting characters in Menu > Setup > Display > Screen…
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