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How do I paste from PuTTY into Vim 8.0?

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

How do I paste from PuTTY into Vim 8.0?

Well, nice question, as I found it quite annoying that the usual right click on the mouse doesn’t work. In fact


Open a web browser, copy / paste some text from a website (eg. GitHub)
Use PuTTY 0.67 to SSH to a Linux VM (eg. Ubuntu 16 Xenial Xerus)
Open a file in Vim
Hit i to change into Insert mode
Right-click to paste the clipboard contents
Issue
Unfortunately, when I right-click in the PuTTY session, rather than pasting clipboard contents, what’s actually happening is that Vim is going from INSERT mode to (insert) VISUAL mode. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this before.

Luckly it seems that there’s an easy workaround.


Adapt to it: With mouse mode turned on, the new way to paste is shift-right-click (at least in PuTTY)

Una buona digestione

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Signore,
dammi una buona digestione
ed anche qualcosa da digerire.
Donami la salute del corpo
col buonumore necessario a mantenerla.

E donami, Signore, un’anima santa
che faccia tesoro
di quello che è buono e puro,
affinché non si spaventi
alla vista del male,
ma trovi, alla tua presenza,
la via per rimettere le cose a posto.

Donami un’anima che non conosca 
la noia, i brontolii, i sospiri e i lamenti;
e non permettere che io mi affligga eccessivamente
per quella cosa troppo invadente
che si chiama “io”.

Signore,
dammi il senso del ridicolo
e concedimi la grazia di comprendere gli scherzi,
affinché conosca nella vita
un po’ di gioia e possa farne partecipi anche gli altri.

Source: Chi siamo, dove andiamo, perchè siamo? – CattOnerD

Stable yet experimental

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

This tutorial is written for Django 2.1, which supports Python 3.5 and later

From: Writing your first Django app, part 1 | Django documentation | Django

I couldn’t find Djiango 2 in my CentOS box. Of course, it’s meant to use only rock-stable versions, I told myself.

I tought to find it in Debian testing. Currently I’m wrong as it’s sitting in experimental branch. Wow. “Mal comune mezzo gaudio” recites an Italian proverb (“a trouble shared is a trouble halved”) as Fedora seems to be in the same situation.

No worries, let’s think about the future: I will manually install it. Some italian “debian debops” won’t agree