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.
This is pretty easy to get around. Take your JFW cursor, place on the top line where your host name or IP address is listed and press a right click either with a mouse or with your jfw key 9 option. Other screen readers should have the equivalent mouse click facility. Here you'll get the various options such as copy to clipboard, change settings, minimize, etc. If you do the same move but instead of clicking on the bar you click with in the window it will paste to the terminal window. Use your screen reader's mouse functionality to do this. Thanks Scott On May 19, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
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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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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Thanks both. Hal (Not jfw) does let me click mouse buttons, but it doesn't appear to be working. Does secure crt do anything with insert on its own? Shift insert should be fine, but vi uses insert to let you insert things. On 20/05/2011, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita@gmail.com> wrote:
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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Nope, the insert key doesn't do anything with SecureCRT, but only with Shift+Insert. --Octavian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Mustill-Rose" <bmustillrose@gmail.com> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Copy & paste in Putty using keyboard
Thanks both.
Hal (Not jfw) does let me click mouse buttons, but it doesn't appear to be working. Does secure crt do anything with insert on its own? Shift insert should be fine, but vi uses insert to let you insert things.
On 20/05/2011, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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" <bmustillrose@gmail.com> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> 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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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" <jheim@math.wisc.edu> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Copy & paste in Putty using keyboard
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" <bmustillrose@gmail.com> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> 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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