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Ask HN: Has Putty right mouse button paste put you in trouble?

1 points by carlos 16y ago

It happened to me again. Pasted in the console lots of garbage because of just pressing right mouse button expecting the context menu to open instead. At least this time was not in a production machine... Does it happens to you?

ankimal 16y ago
Not that I can remember. But I always put a '#' before I paste just to be sure of what I m pasting especially on production.
- bobf 16y ago
  That's a pretty useful tip, thanks!
- ajuc 16y ago
  Nice tip, but this only comments out the first line of pasted text. I do: cat > a [CLICK] [CTRL+D]
ajuc 16y ago
A few times, but it did nothing dangerous, only created a lot of empty files with stupid names (there were > in pasted text). Anyway, I still think it's useful feature. What bit me hard once on c programming exam was typing: gcc p[TAB]rog.c -o p[TAB]rog.c[ENTER] it's unfortunate bash can't autocomplete names of files that don't exists yet.
konad 16y ago
I'm forever middle clicking X-Window style and clearing my clipboard IRC is usually the place I type ls -ltr
bediger 16y ago
You can set this to X-style, Middle-button-pastes: Double-click "putty.exe" icon to get "PuTTY Configurtion". Click the saved session to highlight. Click "Load". Click "Window"->"Selection" category item. Honestly, I can't think why that "compromise" thing even exists.