Dmitry Gutov writes: Hi Dmitry, > 1. Somehow have a message that only spans the time the connection is > established, and don't print the rest by default (the user will note > when the action finished anyway, and there likely will be other > messages corresponding to different operations - copying a file, > opening it, etc). I'm not sure how to fit that into the described > framework, but what if the new message was level 3 and the current was > moved to level 4? I've changed it such a way that the message "Opening connection ..." appears only until the prompt from remote is seen. For the rest, there will be another message "Setup connection ...". As bonus, the "Opening connection ..." message appears now for every hop in the multi-hop case. This is new. Could you pls check the appended patch? Best regards, Michael.