If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. If you want to enable it back, follow the procedure and in step 3, choose radio button for “Compromise (Middle Extends, Right Pastes)”. Now, for every saved session, select and load and follow the above (in step3, instead of default session, choose your saved session). In order to copy text to the clipboard, you just click the left mouse button in the terminal window, and drag to select text. Click Session in the left pane, select “Default Settings” and click Save. In the right-pane select the radio button for “Windows (Middle extends, Right brings up menu)”.ģ. Open PuTTY, in the left-pane, click Selection under Window.Ģ. The following procedure will help you change this default behaviour to prompt to paste than pasting automatically when you right-click.ġ. Have you pasted “reboot” and pressed enter without realizing what you’ve done? While this is a great convenience, it is equally dangerous when you are logged onto live production systems. If you are interested in mastering the basics of Nano, try this free course on Nano.In PuTTY, right-click on the mouse is configured to automatically pastes the contents from the clip-board. This article covered the basics of copying, cutting and pasting text in Nano. GNU Nano is a simple text editor that is known best for getting the job done without much fuss. It cannot be accessed at the system level and hence you cannot use it outside Nano. If you use the Nano specific keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl+K etc, the text stays in Nano buffer. When you use Ctrl+Shift+C/V keys, the text is copied into the system buffer and hence it can be used outside the Nano editor as well. Similarly, if you want to copy some text from Nano to an external application, use Ctrl+Shift+C to copy the text and then the usual Ctrl+V to paste it. If you want to copy text from a web browser or other editor into Nano, use the Ctrl+Shift+V to paste the text into Nano. Similarly, if it says M-A for Append, use Alt + M (M means Alt key). If it says ^K for Cut, use Ctrl+K (^ means Ctrl key). So, even if you forgot it, you can always look at the bottom of the editor for hints or press Ctrl+G for help. Nano shows the keyboard shortcuts at the bottom of the screen all the time.
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