Feature Requests (Block Select and Session Log)

[Matthew Hay]

Sorry if these have already been requested/talked about.

First thanks every so much for Secure Shell, ever since I first started using chrome I've always wanted putty as a plugin.  I found out about this roughly a week ago and have not used putty since (at home or work).

Two features that would be nice are:

  1. Block Select (not sure of the appropriate name sorry) - in putty (or notepad++) you can press and hold alt to only select a block/region of characters instead of lines.  This allows you to copy only a certain column of data from output (like from sar or ls).  This is nothing major or even a killer feature it is just handy to have.

  2.  Session Logging - Even though they have forgotten my work requires me to keep session logs, it would be nice if this could generate a log.  This is where google drive integration would be nice.

Thanks

[Shane McCarron]

I agree - block select would be super handy!

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Shane McCarron
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[Robert Ginda]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Matthew Hay <part...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry if these have already been requested/talked about.

First thanks every so much for Secure Shell, ever since I first started using chrome I've always wanted putty as a plugin.  I found out about this roughly a week ago and have not used putty since (at home or work).

Two features that would be nice are:

  1. Block Select (not sure of the appropriate name sorry) - in putty (or notepad++) you can press and hold alt to only select a block/region of characters instead of lines.  This allows you to copy only a certain column of data from output (like from sar or ls).  This is nothing major or even a killer feature it is just handy to have.

Filed as Issue 37568.

The tricky part here is that we leverage Chrome's default text selection behavior, which has no concept of block/rectangular selection.

If you're mostly concerned about using this in a text editor, you may already be able to do this.  Emacs' rectangle functions alread provide a richer set of commands than Secure Shell could.  See http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/emacs_68.html.  Vi has something similar: http://superuser.com/questions/208852/how-to-select-a-rectangular-range-in-vim

 

  2.  Session Logging - Even though they have forgotten my work requires me to keep session logs, it would be nice if this could generate a log.  This is where google drive integration would be nice.

Filed as  Issue 37569.

Rob.

Thanks

[vau...@dmsllconline.net]

I know this is an old post but I was wondering if something like http://letteringjs.com/ could be used to allow block copying?

Thanks