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I always hated having to copy/paste URLs from PuTTY, so I started using PuTTY Tray (http://haanstra.eu/putty/ http://haanstra.eu/putty/) It highlights URLs, rec

I always hated having to copy/paste URLs from PuTTY, so I started using PuTTY Tray (http://haanstra.eu/putty/ http://haanstra.eu/putty/) It highlights URLs, reconnects on failure, and does a few other nice things

dholowiski 15y ago
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.
- conductor 15y ago
  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?
  - dholowiski 15y ago
    What? After all these years. Runs off to try it...god damn... all the time i've wasted i could have written a book.
    - seabee 15y ago
      I have to ask - how did you do it before?
      - dholowiski 15y ago
        go to the menu, copy all to clipboard. paste into notepad & copy the text i wanted. How stupid is that?
        baq 15y ago
        oh. my. god.
        mobiplayer 15y ago
        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 :-/
        dholowiski 15y ago
        You see? I could have written a book, or a trilogy.
        drivebyacct2 15y ago
        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.
        rbonvall 15y ago
        Good luck installing Cygwin on an internet cafe. (I used to use Putty to check my email using mutt remotely when on vacation).
        caf 15y ago
        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.
  - seabee 15y ago
    You can even customize that a little (Window > Selection).
  - initself 15y ago
    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.
encoderer 15y ago
Also a fan of PuTTY tray, but just like KiTTY, this 0.61 finally supports the windows 7 screen splitting and resizing shortcuts. That's too useful to pass up. I hope the Tray guys will release an update incorporating these 0.61 changes.
jack12 15y ago
Me too, but on PuTTY Tray's download page: "Last update: November 25th, 2007. Please note: I have decided to stop development of the PuTTY Tray patch, and I have no plans to resume it at any point in the future."
runjake 15y ago
What? How is copy/pasting hard in PuTTY? Edit: After reviewing other comments, it appears people weren't aware that PuTTY has X11-style copy/pasting. It helps to read the docs, folks: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#faq-cutpaste http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#f...
- matthavener 15y ago
  Not that copy/paste is hard, its just much easier to click a link instead of highlighting it, switching to browser, new tab, paste
- fendale 15y ago
  I love that copy / paste method in putty. It drives me mad it doesn't work like that in the OS X terminal. Is there any way to get the OS X terminal to behave like Putty with copy and paste?
  - dstone 15y ago
    iTerm 2 has that feature. It's a very good Terminal replacement. The only complaint I've heard about it is that the rendering can be kinda slow if you're drinking from a firehose like dmesg.
- smackfu 15y ago
  When it's the only thing on the OS that has X11 copy/pasting, that's the problem. It's like when people complain that a Linux program doesn't look like Linux, just like a bad Windows port.
  - chrismsnz 15y ago
    Good luck Ctrl+C'ing in your terminal trying to copy that output.
    - smackfu 15y ago
      Does putty support select, then right-click and click on Copy in the context menu? That is what I expect to work, and I've seen Unix ported apps that just ignore that, and have no Copy menu item either, so it's a complete mystery that selecting does anything.

dholowiski 15y ago

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.

conductor 15y ago
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?
- dholowiski 15y ago
  What? After all these years. Runs off to try it...god damn... all the time i've wasted i could have written a book.
  - seabee 15y ago
    I have to ask - how did you do it before?
    - dholowiski 15y ago
      go to the menu, copy all to clipboard. paste into notepad & copy the text i wanted. How stupid is that?
      - baq 15y ago
        oh. my. god.
        mobiplayer 15y ago
        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 :-/
        dholowiski 15y ago
        You see? I could have written a book, or a trilogy.
        drivebyacct2 15y ago
        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.
        rbonvall 15y ago
        Good luck installing Cygwin on an internet cafe. (I used to use Putty to check my email using mutt remotely when on vacation).
        caf 15y ago
        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.
- seabee 15y ago
  You can even customize that a little (Window > Selection).
- initself 15y ago
  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.

encoderer 15y ago

Also a fan of PuTTY tray, but just like KiTTY, this 0.61 finally supports the windows 7 screen splitting and resizing shortcuts. That's too useful to pass up. I hope the Tray guys will release an update incorporating these 0.61 changes.

jack12 15y ago

Me too, but on PuTTY Tray's download page: "Last update: November 25th, 2007. Please note: I have decided to stop development of the PuTTY Tray patch, and I have no plans to resume it at any point in the future."

runjake 15y ago

What? How is copy/pasting hard in PuTTY? Edit: After reviewing other comments, it appears people weren't aware that PuTTY has X11-style copy/pasting. It helps to read the docs, folks: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#faq-cutpaste http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#f...

matthavener 15y ago
Not that copy/paste is hard, its just much easier to click a link instead of highlighting it, switching to browser, new tab, paste
fendale 15y ago
I love that copy / paste method in putty. It drives me mad it doesn't work like that in the OS X terminal. Is there any way to get the OS X terminal to behave like Putty with copy and paste?
- dstone 15y ago
  iTerm 2 has that feature. It's a very good Terminal replacement. The only complaint I've heard about it is that the rendering can be kinda slow if you're drinking from a firehose like dmesg.
smackfu 15y ago
When it's the only thing on the OS that has X11 copy/pasting, that's the problem. It's like when people complain that a Linux program doesn't look like Linux, just like a bad Windows port.
- chrismsnz 15y ago
  Good luck Ctrl+C'ing in your terminal trying to copy that output.
  - smackfu 15y ago
    Does putty support select, then right-click and click on Copy in the context menu? That is what I expect to work, and I've seen Unix ported apps that just ignore that, and have no Copy menu item either, so it's a complete mystery that selecting does anything.