No worries, I appreciate the thought. It seems like a bug that "connect" by itself doesn't leave you in the console; why would anyone want the current behavior?

Did you try that? Any command specified on the command line will execute but then it will disconnect you. So deluge-console "connect server user pass ; info" will indeed get you a list of torrents, but if you just do deluge-console "connect server user pass" it will connect to th...

I use deluge-console on my client computer to connect to a remote server. Whenever I start it, it attempts to connect to localhost and fails. I have to manually type in the connect command in the console every time. How can I get it to default to connect to the remote server?