#Normal putty vs portable putty plus#
#Normal putty vs portable putty windows#

If you want to select a rectangular region instead of selecting to the end of each line, you can do this by holding down Alt when you make your selection. (You can adjust precisely what PuTTY considers to be part of a word see section 4.11.6.) If you triple-click, or triple-click and drag, then PuTTY will select a whole line or sequence of lines. If you double-click, hold down the second click, and drag the mouse, PuTTY will select a sequence of whole words. If you double-click the left mouse button, PuTTY will select a whole word. There is nothing PuTTY can do about this.)

#Normal putty vs portable putty plus#

(Therefore, be careful of pasting formatted text into an editor that does automatic indenting you may find that the spaces pasted from the clipboard plus the spaces added by the editor add up to too many spaces and ruin the formatting.

#Normal putty vs portable putty windows#

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 4.11.3). 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.

Nevertheless, there are a few more useful features available. Once you have worked your way through that and started a session, things should be reasonably simple after that. 3.1 During your sessionĪ lot of PuTTY's complexity and features are in the configuration panel. For extreme detail and reference purposes, chapter 4 is likely to contain more information. This chapter provides a general introduction to some more advanced features of PuTTY. Section 3.7.3: Standard command-line options.Section 3.7.1: Starting a session from the command line.Section 3.6: Making raw TCP connections.Section 3.5: Using port forwarding in SSH.Section 3.4: Using X11 forwarding in SSH.Section 3.3: Altering your character set configuration.Section 3.2: Creating a log file of your session.Section 3.1.2: Scrolling the screen back.Section 3.1.1: Copying and pasting text.