

(Pressing Shift-Ins, or selecting ‘Paste’ from the Ctrl+right-click context menu, have the same effect.) When you click the right mouse button, PuTTY will read whatever is in the Windows clipboard and paste it into your session, exactly as if it had been typed at the keyboard. Pasting is done using the right button (or the middle mouse button, if you have a three-button mouse and have set it up see section 4.11.2). You do not need to press Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Ins in fact, if you do press Ctrl-C, PuTTY will send a Ctrl-C character down your session to the server where it will probably cause a process to be interrupted. When you let go of the button, the text is automatically copied to the clipboard. In order to copy text to the clipboard, you just click the left mouse button in the terminal window, and drag to select text. PuTTY's copy and paste works entirely with the mouse. Also, copy and paste uses the Windows clipboard, so that you can paste (for example) URLs into a web browser, or paste from a word processor or spreadsheet into your terminal session.

Like most other terminal emulators, PuTTY allows you to copy and paste the text rather than having to type it again.

Often in a PuTTY session you will find text on your terminal screen which you want to type in again. Previous page next page 3.1.1 Copying and pasting text
