Copying and pasting in a Putty window
I installed the free and open-source
PuTTY terminal emulator
program on a laptop running Microsoft Windows 11 to use as a
SSH client.
On a system running Microsoft Windows, I would normally use Ctrl-C to copy
text from one window into the Windows
clipboard
and then use Ctrl-V to paste the copied text into another window. But that
doesn't work with PuTTY. Nor did the Shift-Insert key combination work.
But you can paste text into the PuTTY window after you have copied it into
the clipboard by left-clicking in the PuTTY window where you wish to place
the text after you've copied the text and then right-clicking. Using that
method, I was able to paste text from the Windows clipboard into a a file
I was editing with the
Vi text editor on a Linux server.
