Old-school X users and migrants from Windows each feel at home, by I have to suppose that the point of this system was to make both Pairs of keyboard shortcuts along the lines of ^C/^V or
Tradition of having explicit Copy and Paste commands in menus, or The other, CLIPBOARD, follows the more Windowsy UI Mimics: just select some text, and middle-click to paste it elsewhere. One, called PRIMARY, is typicallyĪccessed by the old-school X11 user interface that Windows PuTTY 'selections', each given an identifying name in practice, there are In principle, an X server supports an open-ended set of It has just one copy operation, which writes to that clipboard, andīut in modern X11-based desktop environments, this is a wrongĪssumption. PuTTY assumes, on all platforms, that there is exactly one clipboard No support for multiple clipboards/selections Window by mistake, which wipes out the previous clipboardĬontents, which you might well have been about to use for something. Mouse setup) it can be annoyingly easy to select text in the PuTTY Outright inconvenient, because sometimes (depending on details of It's unlike all the other applications they use also, it can be So people can find PuTTY's unusual copy/paste UI surprising, since UI as a breath of fresh air and a nice reminder of home.īut these days, by no means all PuTTY users fall into that category. Instead I expected that such users would see the X-style copy/paste Prefer to be using Unix/X11 desktops but were forced to use Windows The original Windows PuTTY was primarily aimed at users who would
That was a deliberate design decision early in development, because Without waiting for any subsequent UI action meaning 'copy'. PuTTY insists on copying to the clipboard as soon as you select text, No way to separate select from copy operation PuTTY's handling of copy and paste has two related problems. Wishlist summary: Revamp copy/paste UI and handle multiple clipboardsĬlass: wish: This is a request for an enhancement. PuTTY wish clipboard-generality PuTTY wish clipboard-generality
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