Copy/paste into SSH'd VIM from local (Windows) clipboard

I found that set mouse=n allowed me to still click my mouse inside of nvim, but also pastes from an ssh terminal into the machine running vim.

From my windows computer, I connect with Putty to 2 different machines:

1. Machine: Ubuntu system; pasting with mouse-right-click into Putty window

   • OK: works at linux console
   • OK: works at VIM editor

2. Machine: firewall system with a basic linux system; pasting with mouse-right-click into Putty window

   • OK: works at linux console
   • FAILED: doesn't work at VIM editor
     • if I am at mode -- INSERT --, after mouse right click the VIM is in mode -- VISUAL --
     • so it might be a "feature" somehow that we all didn't expected and don't want?!
   • OK: Shift+Insert works

My conclusion for now: it's

• not a client setting thing, because it's depending on the remote server that I connect to
• not a Putty application thing, because it's both times the same software
• not a Putty configuration thing, because I use the same session configuration for both remote servers (changing the Putty session options didn't worked for me)
• a remote server thing, that VIM is either
  • configured differently between distros or
  • a special package is required to be installed and enabled and the distros provide a different set of installed packages

This worked for me:

1. Right click in command prompt window's title area.

2. Click "Properties".

3. In "Options" > "Edit Options", click the checkbox next to "Use Ctrl+Shift+C/V as Copy/Paste".

I am using the Windows Subsystem for Linux to SSH and could not get anything to work for pasting into Vim directly (including right-click). Pasting into the terminal outside of vim did work though (with right-click), so I ended up just doing

echo "<right-click to paste>" >> filename.txt

then vim filename.txt and putting the pasted text where I wanted it. Annoying, but better than nothing at least...

This is what I do.

Inside of Linux SSH session: type cat nameoffile highlight text with mouse, right click it and select copy.

Then on Windows application such as Word: Right click and select paste.

I see that this post has already been answered, but as a further option; I use PuTTy and my local machine is Windows 10.

If I copy some text from my local machine, all I need to do is to right mouse click into the PuTTy terminal window, and this will paste my clipboard there.

It doesn't matter if you are using vim, vi or nano, etc. it will still work, as this is a PuTTy terminal.

If you are using windows 10 ssh on the command line all you need to do is right-click the mouse.

These days, I am using WSL (Ubuntu 18 TLS) in a Windows 10 machine instead of PuTTY for SSH and I use Vim.

I had troubles copying code from Windows 10 to paste in the remote server. Ctrl+Shift+V did not work or any other method.

My solution is: copy text from a window, then move to the Ubuntu terminal, then change Vim to insert mode (insert) then use the right click of the mouse.

On my windows laptop, pasting into remote vim, this is the only thing I could get to work:

Ctrl+C was fine for copying.. but I needed Shift+Insert to Paste !

(A good reason to get a laptop where Insert can be accessed without pressing a secondary key)

Enter insert mode in vim (i) and you can right click on the putty window to bring up a menu that has a paste command. Also an option in the menu bar. Works for me from windows.

Putty doesn't copy the the contents of the windows clipboard to the remote computer's clipboard. It basically virtually enters them as if you were typing the characters in the clipboard.