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

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:

1. Before pasting into vim, enable paste mode by entering :set paste.

2. Press i to enter insert mode. The status bar should say -- INSERT (paste) -- now.

3. 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.

4. 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.