Copying stuff from vim running in putty

vim mouse clipboard copy-paste putty
Pulkit Sinha picture Pulkit Sinha · Nov 30, 2010 · Viewed 16.8k times · Source

I am running Vim 6.3 through putty and putty connection manager. I have the mouse option set (set mouse = a). I am able to paste things from the (windows) clipboard to vim by but selecting text in vim isn't copying anything to the clipboard. Does anyone know how do I do this?

Note: I can't update Vim to a newer version.

Answer

Dunnie picture Dunnie · Nov 30, 2010

Hold down shift, and then highlight the text you want to copy using the left mouse button. When you release, the highlighted text should be in the Windows clipboard.

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