Questions tagged [putty]

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Output of paste into Vim truncated

I am having issues with pasting text from the clipboard into Vim (v7.4) on an HPC cluster using Centos, which I have logged into using MTPuTTY. I still get the same error when I'm logging in via ...
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How can I stop vim from automatically entering visual mode when I click into the PuTTY window with my mouse?

I suspect this is the same in vim as well, but fwiw I'm actually using nvim. For a long time I've used set mouse=a so I can choose to navigate my file with the mouse, if I so wish. What I've never ...
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Number pad not working with vi and Putty?

When I am editing a file in vim via SSH, I will try to use the number pad on my keyboard to enter long numbers (like IP addresses). Vim does not seem to like that very much. I am using PuTTY for ...
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Make Ctrl + arrows work inside neovim

I'm using PuTTY as SSH client and zsh as a shell. When I just connect to a host and don't run nvim, I can see that control-left/right keys work correctly and send a different key from simply pressing ...
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How do PuTTY/KiTTY ANSI colors affect Vim colorschemes?

I'm having a hard time understanding how the ANSI colors affect the named colors in Vim. My KiTTY terminal has "regular" and "bold" versions for the main 8 colors, plus foreground/background colors. ...
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Indenting now add suspicious chars to my files when pasting

Following answer I got there to allow >> to indent, I edited my .vimrc to this: :set shiftwidth=2 :set autoindent :set smartindent But now when I copy/paste (via putty), it indents incrementally, by ...