[vim/vim] Right-click pasting from PuTTY on Windows 10 (#1188)

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Trevor Sullivan

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Oct 20, 2016, 5:38:47 PM10/20/16
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Vim 8.0 is pretty rad, and has some incredible new features! Unfortunately, it broke one of my common workflows, when copying and pasting text into a document.

From a Windows 10 Anniversary Update client ...

  • Open a web browser, copy / paste some text from a website (eg. GitHub)
  • Use PuTTY 0.67 to SSH to a Linux VM (eg. Ubuntu 16 Xenial Xerus)
  • Open a file in Vim
  • Hit i to change into Insert mode
  • Right-click to paste the clipboard contents

Unfortunately, when I right-click in the PuTTY session, rather than pasting clipboard contents, what's actually happening is that Vim is going from INSERT mode to (insert) VISUAL mode. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before. Does anyone know why this is happening, and how I can paste my Windows client clipboard into the SSH / Vim session?

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JohnBeckett

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Oct 20, 2016, 7:40:51 PM10/20/16
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On Friday, October 21, 2016 at 8:38:47 AM UTC+11, Trevor Sullivan wrote:
> Unfortunately, when I right-click in the PuTTY session, rather
> than pasting clipboard contents, what's actually happening is
> that Vim is going from INSERT mode to (insert) VISUAL mode.

Doing a right-click in Putty causes it to send the contents of the clipboard to the remote server, that is, to Vim which is in insert mode because you used "i". It sounds like a Putty config problem, or something weird in the clipboard.

In Putty, rather than doing a right-click, try typing Shift-Insert which should have the same effect. What happens?

John

K.Takata

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Oct 20, 2016, 8:00:53 PM10/20/16
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Check your 'mouse' setting with :set mouse?.
If you include vimrc_example.vim from your .vimrc, the setting of 'mouse' will be changed after Vim 8.

FYI, Shift+Ins might be also used to paste on PuTTY.

Christian Brabandt

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Oct 21, 2016, 1:41:35 AM10/21/16
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Closed #1188.

Trevor Sullivan

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Oct 21, 2016, 1:20:04 PM10/21/16
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Thanks @k-takata -- I fixed this problem by using:

:set mouse=

Mas

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Dec 14, 2016, 12:59:17 AM12/14/16
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I am wondering if this is a bug was by design in VIM 8? The same is happening via Fedora 25. When right clicking it put you into visual mode. The only fix is to add set mouse-=a or set mouse= to .vimrc

Trevor Sullivan

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Nov 21, 2018, 1:06:49 PM11/21/18
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A couple years later ... I ran into this same issue again, and SHIFT + INSERT works perfectly as well. Thanks again.

Stefan300381

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Apr 4, 2020, 1:01:47 PM4/4/20
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this helped me in 2020 ;-) thanks

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Marcel Hecko

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Jan 5, 2021, 6:28:29 AM1/5/21
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this helped me in 2020 ;-) thanks

and now me in 2021! :)

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Philipp Posovszky

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Jun 30, 2021, 3:15:28 PM6/30/21
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and it still helps :)

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It still helped me in 2010

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Thomas Beckler

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you made my day! Thank you

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cheers from 2023!

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