how to paste to vim when using putty

Question

I am using putty to connect a remote host and editing via vim. I meet a trouble when I try to paste something to vim. That\'s, I copy something to clipboard in my local host and

Answer 1

In Windows Subsystem for Linux it appears that you have to:

1. i = to enter -- INSERT -- mode
2. Shift-right-mouse-click = to paste

If you just right-mouse-click (i.e. without shift) then annoyingly all that happens is that the mode changes to -- (insert) VISUAL -- i.e. it doesn't paste anything.