I have to ask - how did you do it before?

dholowiski · on July 13, 2011

go to the menu, copy all to clipboard. paste into notepad & copy the text i wanted. How stupid is that?

baq · on July 13, 2011

oh. my. god.

mobiplayer · on July 13, 2011

In my experience, people used to the famous IRC client mIRC do know how to copy&paste in PuTTy in a natural way. Those who didn't waste hours @ IRC back in the late 90's not :-)

Also, I get complaints of my coworkers because I configure SecureCRT to behave like PuTTy, they say it's dangerous :-/

dholowiski · on July 14, 2011

You see? I could have written a book, or a trilogy.

drivebyacct2 · on July 14, 2011

I'm going to be that guy, but what the hell are y'all doing in putty that didn't lend itself to getting a proper posix environment to work out of. I tolerate Windows for my current Azure development, but beyond that... cygwin is my first install on any Windows machine, maybe after Chrome and Firefox.

caf · on July 14, 2011

I've long since decided that the best way to get a "proper POSIX environment" on a Windows machine is to install Debian in a VM-of-choice and connect to it with PuTTY.

rbonvall · on July 14, 2011

Good luck installing Cygwin on an internet cafe.

(I used to use Putty to check my email using mutt remotely when on vacation).