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
In Windows Subsystem for Linux it appears that you have to:
-- INSERT --
moderight-mouse-click
= to pasteIf 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.
Try with Ctrl + Shift + V or with middle click with a 3 button mouse
EDIT
What about? Shift + Ins
Source : https://superuser.com/questions/180043/paste-the-windows-clipboard-into-my-putty-session-using-only-the-keyboard
Copy&Paste between Windows&PuTTY:
To copy from Windows and paste into PuTTY, highlight the text in Windows, press "Ctrl-C
," select the PuTTY window, and press the right mouse button to paste. To copy from PuTTy and paste into Windows, highlight the information in PuTTY and press "Ctrl-V
" in the Windows application to paste it.
Copy&Past between two vim in separate PuTTY:
highlight the information in the source PuTTY, and then press the right mouse button in the target PuTTY to paste.
To clarify the other answers, there are a couple ways to do this, depending on if Vim is running with mouse support. Lets assume its via some sort of terminal/Putty:
You can insert text from your host’s clipboard by pressing the right mouse button (default setting) or by pressing Shift + Ins. Note that this has the same effect as entering every character manually. So if you are using auto indentation in vim, this will very likely screw up your code.
To fix that, you can do the following:
Before pasting into vim, enable paste mode by entering :set paste
.
Press i to enter insert mode. The status bar should say -- INSERT (paste) --
now.
Press the right mouse button to paste in your stuff. The auto indentation of vim should not happen.
If this puts you into the -- (insert) VISUAL --
mode, exit out of it using Esc (putting you into the paste insert mode again), and try pasting it again while holding Shift using your right mouse button.
Press Esc to leave insert mode, and disable paste mode using :set nopaste
again.
You can change which mouse button is used to paste in PuTTY in the Window/Selection configuration page.