Accessing a Linux Server via SSH
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@BRRABill said in Accessing a Linux Server via SSH:
@scottalanmiller said
The default of what is to copy, paste and hit return?
PUTTY.
Be default when you right click something to copy, it copies it and pastes it and then hits return.
I guess perhaps just highlighting it copies it? I like the Windows method.
When using Linux/UNIX, if what you have copied includes a carriage return, it will paste in the carriage return. Can be annoying to get exactly what you want to copy at times, which is why you should learn to hold shift and arrow keys to get just what you want.
I got so used to the middle mouse button copying what was highlighted, I was kinda lost for the years between using IRIX everyday and the clickable scroll wheel appearing.
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@BRRABill said in Accessing a Linux Server via SSH:
@scottalanmiller said
The default of what is to copy, paste and hit return?
PUTTY.
Be default when you right click something to copy, it copies it and pastes it and then hits return.
I guess perhaps just highlighting it copies it? I like the Windows method.
No it does not. I thought maybe you were thinking this but did not want to imply it. That's a misunderstanding of what is happening. It only does that IF your Windows environment and your actions are copying a carriage return into the clipboard (which Windows does by default.) This has nothing to do with PuTTY and is all about your Windows desktop AND it only does this if YOU make it happen, it does not do that for the rest of us. We don't copy the carriage return into the clipboard unless we want it. Windows makes this easy to control as a feature, but it is an invisible feature of the Windows environment so if you are not a Windows power user, you might not be aware that there is an interface to it that you are misusing.
PuTTY simply does what Windows tells it to do, PuTTY has no default behaviour like you are imagining.
