Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Copy & paste in Putty using keyboard

20 May 2011

      Hi,

It is true that older versions of NVDA didn't work with TextPad, but the latest versions of NVDA can access TextPad fine.

TextPad is the best editor for Windows (from my point of view), even though it has a single but very bad deficiency... the fact that it doesn't fully support UTF-8.

TextPad, or other editors can be used to edit the files directly on the server using an SSH connection, by WinSCP or even FileZilla (but WinSCP is better for doing this).

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John G. Heim" 
To: "Blind sysadmins list" 
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Copy & paste in Putty using keyboard
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I see that Scott already answered your question but I thought I'd add that 
you are right to think that you can't edit a linux or unix file with 
notepad. *nix operating systems use different chars for line breaks. I use a 
program called TexpPad to edit files on linux and Mac file systems mounted 
with expandDrive.
I like TextPad because you can configure it to use the same hotkeys as 
notepad. Also, it loads really fast and isn't as bloated  as some of the 
other text editors out there. But there are lots of other editors out there 
that can handle linux and Mac files.
Another editor I own a license for is UltraEdit. I haven't upgraded my 
license in years because it kept crashing on me. And it takes a long time to 
load. But it consistently gets good reviews and it can handle both Mac and 
linux files.
PS: TextPad doesn't work with nvda.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Mustill-Rose" 
To: "Blind sysadmins list" 
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 10:08 PM
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Copy & paste in Putty using keyboard
...
Hey all,
I need to paste some text into a file which I'm modifying via vi which
resides on a machine that I'm connecting to using putty. For those of
you that don't know, control v for paste won't work inside putty; it
just sends the charactor that control + v represents. The idea is that
you can right click anyware inside the putty window and the text will
be pasted in. This isn't usually an issue, except I'm working on a
system without a mouse. I did try using expan drive (A great product
for mounting sftp locations as drives in explorer) to find the file
that I want and then modify it in notepad, but doing it this way bash
seems to see some strange charactors which are stopping the script
from running - I think it might be the different way that windows and
linux do linebreaks.
I did think I'd found a way to paste; hal doesn't offer any form of
cursor mooving as far as I'm aware, so I loded up narrator, told it to
move the mouse to the active item, opened the putty window then used
hal to perform a right click, but this doesn't seem to work.
We're talking quite a few lines of code here so I don't really want to
echo them to the file line by line if it can be avoided.
As always, any solutions or tips will be gratefully received, but I
think I'll be going into s3 soon since its just past 4AM in the uk.
Cheers,
Ben.
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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Copy & paste in Putty using keyboard

Octavian Rasnita