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Perhaps this is a misguided hate, after all, Mobile PuTTY is a dancing bear - you don't really expecting it to do anything well, rather to clap in amazement at the fact that it does anything at all. On the other hand, I'm too lazy to set up hates-dancing-bears.com, so this will have to do. In all fairness, I won't hate about the fact that you can't map key press combinations, but have to for example send 5 keypresses to get Options... Send... Special Key... Page Down. I won't even hate the fact you have to send 3 keypresses - Options... Send... Line <CR>... - to type a line of text because just pressing the number keys inputs numbers instead. No, I won't even hate that it won't let you input a null Line (e.g. just send a <CR> or even <SPACE><CR>) lest you, er, take your eye out with it or something. I won't even hate the fact that you can't recall previously entered text because maybe it's somehow manlier (grrr!) to use your remote shell's facilities to edit previous commands rather than your more convenient local device. (Only barely more convenient admittedly as we're talking mobile phone). It would furthermore be churlish to mention that the font used isn't a fixed font, (and that the 'screen font' setting presents a blank menu), and that the rendering of an irssi session is ugly and so fucked up with random artifacts that it's barely possible to read it. Just point at the fucking bear, shout "Oooo, daddy! Doesn't it look funny!", clap idiotically and then use WirelessIRC like everyone else already. I would however, like to hate the fact that it can't be bothered to remember even the name of the server I last connected to. Data entry on a phone is annoying, and computers are good at storing data - this is shitting in the woods functionality and I hate hate hate that this client can't be bothered to provide it.
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