I don't use putty, but SecureCRT. In SecureCRT I use the Shift+insert key for pasting text. Maybe in putty is the same. Try to see if it works. So when I want to paste something, I first press Insert+3 for bypassing the next key (because otherwise the insert key will be captured by Jaws), then I press Shift+insert and the text is pasted. You may also try just insert without shift... --Octavian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Mustill-Rose" <bmustillrose@gmail.com> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 6:08 AM 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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