{"id":5144,"date":"2019-01-22T19:46:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T18:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2019-01-22T09:04:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T08:04:49","slug":"5144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2019\/01\/22\/5144\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I paste from PuTTY into Vim 8.0?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How do I paste from PuTTY into Vim 8.0?<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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


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<\/code> 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<\/code> mode to (insert) VISUAL<\/code> mode. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this before. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Luckly it seems that there’s an easy workaround.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Adapt to it<\/strong>: With mouse mode turned on, the new way to paste is shift-right-click<\/em> (at least in PuTTY) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n

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