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I agree - copy and paste on putty drove me crazy enough to switch to a Mac for development work. "copy all to clipboard"?? I'll have to check out putty tray.

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Copy and paste is the easiest thing in Putty! Just select anything and it is in your clipboard. To paste in Putty use Shift+Insert or just the right button of your mouse. So what are you talking about?

What? After all these years. Runs off to try it...god damn... all the time i've wasted i could have written a book.

I have to ask - how did you do it before?

go to the menu, copy all to clipboard. paste into notepad & copy the text i wanted. How stupid is that?

oh. my. god.

In my experience, people used to the famous IRC client mIRC do know how to copy&paste in PuTTy in a natural way. Those who didn't waste hours @ IRC back in the late 90's not :-)

Also, I get complaints of my coworkers because I configure SecureCRT to behave like PuTTy, they say it's dangerous :-/

You see? I could have written a book, or a trilogy.

I'm going to be that guy, but what the hell are y'all doing in putty that didn't lend itself to getting a proper posix environment to work out of. I tolerate Windows for my current Azure development, but beyond that... cygwin is my first install on any Windows machine, maybe after Chrome and Firefox.

Good luck installing Cygwin on an internet cafe.

(I used to use Putty to check my email using mutt remotely when on vacation).

I've long since decided that the best way to get a "proper POSIX environment" on a Windows machine is to install Debian in a VM-of-choice and connect to it with PuTTY.

You can even customize that a little (Window > Selection).

Even so, the URL highlighter (making it clickable right from the window) is so indispensable, it makes not using PuTTY Tray a non-option. PuTTY needs this feature.

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