PuTTY wish save-mid-session

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When you adjust the properties of a running session using the "Change Settings" menu option, it might be nice to be able to save the adjusted settings back to the saved-session slot you loaded from, or to a new session slot.

This feature is one of our most requested, but is currently pending some design work:

• If you load an existing saved session exactly "as is", by double-clicking or by running "putty @sessionname" or whatever, it's reasonably obvious that hitting the Save button in mid-session should write the changed details back to the same slot you loaded from.
• What if you loaded the session, modified a setting or two, and then started it? Should a mid-session Save still write back to the original slot by default? It sounds as if it obviously should ... but what if the one setting you changed was the hostname? Suddenly I think it's no longer completely obvious that you should be conveniently able to overwrite your previous saved session with the new one.
• So the user interface for this feature needs some serious thought; we have to have a means for working out precisely when it does and does not make sense to have an automatic save-to-where-we-loaded-from button available.

SGT, 2004-12-28: Someone - I've sadly forgotten who - suggested that the simplest possible solution is not to automatically highlight the session you loaded, or enter its name in the session name box. Just provide the list and the Load/Save buttons, so that you can save over an explicitly named session. Then anyone who modifies the hostname and saves over the original slot has to do so explicitly and deliberately, ensuring that it's probably what they meant to do.

Therefore, I've now done this.

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