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3 | \C{using} Using PuTTY |
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5 | This chapter provides a general introduction to some more advanced |
6 | features of PuTTY. For extreme detail and reference purposes, |
7 | \k{config} is likely to contain more information. |
8 | |
9 | \H{using-session} During your session |
10 | |
11 | A lot of PuTTY's complexity and features are in the configuration |
12 | panel. Once you have worked your way through that and started |
13 | a session, things should be reasonably simple after that. |
14 | Nevertheless, there are a few more useful features available. |
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16 | \S{using-selection} Copying and pasting text |
17 | |
18 | Often in a PuTTY session you will find text on your terminal screen |
19 | which you want to type in again. Like most other terminal emulators, |
20 | PuTTY allows you to copy and paste the text rather than having to |
21 | type it again. Also, copy and paste uses the Windows clipboard, so |
22 | that you can paste (for example) URLs into a web browser, or paste |
23 | from a word processor or spreadsheet into your terminal session. |
24 | |
25 | PuTTY's copy and paste works entirely with the mouse. In order to |
26 | copy text to the clipboard, you just click the left mouse button in |
27 | the terminal window, and drag to select text. When you let go of the |
28 | button, the text is \e{automatically} copied to the clipboard. You |
29 | do not need to press Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Ins; in fact, if you do press |
30 | Ctrl-C, PuTTY will send a Ctrl-C character down your session to the |
31 | server where it will probably cause a process to be interrupted. |
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33 | Pasting is done using the right button (or the middle mouse button, |
34 | if you have a three-button mouse and have set it up; see |
35 | \k{config-mouse}). When you click the right mouse button, PuTTY will |
36 | read whatever is in the Windows Clipboard and paste it into your |
37 | session, \e{exactly} as if it had been typed at the keyboard. |
38 | (Therefore, be careful of pasting formatted text into an editor that |
39 | does automatic indenting; you may find that the spaces pasted from |
40 | the clipboard plus the spaces added by the editor add up to too many |
41 | spaces and ruin the formatting. There is nothing PuTTY can do about |
42 | this.) |
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44 | If you double-click the left mouse button, PuTTY will select a whole |
45 | word. If you double-click, hold down the second click, and drag the |
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46 | mouse, PuTTY will select a sequence of whole words. (You can adjust |
47 | precisely what PuTTY considers to be part of a word; see |
48 | \k{config-charclasses}.) If you \e{triple}-click, or triple-click |
49 | and drag, then PuTTY will select a whole line or sequence of lines. |
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51 | If you want to select a rectangular region instead of selecting to |
52 | the end of each line, you can do this by holding down Alt when you |
53 | make your selection. (You can also configure rectangular selection |
54 | to be the default, and then holding down Alt gives the normal |
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55 | behaviour instead. See \k{config-rectselect} for details.) |
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57 | If you have a middle mouse button, then you can use it to adjust an |
58 | existing selection if you selected something slightly wrong. (If you |
59 | have configured the middle mouse button to paste, then the right |
60 | mouse button does this instead.) Click the button on the screen, and |
61 | you can pick up the nearest end of the selection and drag it to |
62 | somewhere else. |
63 | |
64 | \S{using-scrollback} Scrolling the screen back |
65 | |
66 | PuTTY keeps track of text that has scrolled up off the top of the |
67 | terminal. So if something appears on the screen that you want to |
68 | read, but it scrolls too fast and it's gone by the time you try to |
69 | look for it, you can use the scrollbar on the right side of the |
70 | window to look back up the session history and find it again. |
71 | |
72 | As well as using the scrollbar, you can also page the scrollback up |
73 | and down by pressing Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn. These are still |
74 | available if you configure the scrollbar to be invisible. |
75 | |
76 | By default the last 200 lines scrolled off the top are |
77 | preserved for you to look at. You can increase (or decrease) this |
78 | value using the configuration box; see \k{config-scrollback}. |
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80 | \S{using-sysmenu} The System menu |
81 | |
82 | If you click the left mouse button on the icon in the top left |
83 | corner of PuTTY's window, or click the right mouse button on the |
84 | title bar, you will see the standard Windows system menu containing |
85 | items like Minimise, Move, Size and Close. |
86 | |
87 | PuTTY's system menu contains extra program features in addition to |
88 | the Windows standard options. These extra menu commands are |
89 | described below. |
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91 | \S2{using-eventlog} The PuTTY Event Log |
92 | |
93 | If you choose \q{Event Log} from the system menu, a small window |
94 | will pop up in which PuTTY logs significant events during the |
95 | connection. Most of the events in the log will probably take place |
96 | during session startup, but a few can occur at any point in the |
97 | session, and one or two occur right at the end. |
98 | |
99 | You can use the mouse to select one or more lines of the Event Log, |
100 | and hit the Copy button to copy them to the clipboard. If you are |
101 | reporting a bug, it's often useful to paste the contents of the |
102 | Event Log into your bug report. |
103 | |
104 | \S2{using-newsession} Starting new sessions |
105 | |
106 | PuTTY's system menu provides some shortcut ways to start new |
107 | sessions: |
108 | |
109 | \b Selecting \q{New Session} will start a completely new instance of |
110 | PuTTY, and bring up the configuration box as normal. |
111 | |
112 | \b Selecting \q{Duplicate Session} will start a session with |
113 | precisely the same options as your current one - connecting to the |
114 | same host using the same protocol, with all the same terminal |
115 | settings and everything. |
116 | |
117 | \b The \q{Saved Sessions} submenu gives you quick access to any |
118 | sets of stored session details you have previously saved. See |
119 | \k{config-saving} for details of how to create saved sessions. |
120 | |
121 | \S2{using-changesettings} Changing your session settings |
122 | |
123 | If you select \q{Change Settings} from the system menu, PuTTY will |
124 | display a cut-down version of its initial configuration box. This |
125 | allows you to adjust most properties of your current session. You |
126 | can change the terminal size, the font, the actions of various |
127 | keypresses, the colours, and so on. |
128 | |
129 | Some of the options that are available in the main configuration box |
130 | are not shown in the cut-down Change Settings box. These are usually |
131 | options which don't make sense to change in the middle of a session |
132 | (for example, you can't switch from SSH to Telnet in mid-session). |
133 | |
134 | \S2{using-copyall} Copy All to Clipboard |
135 | |
136 | This system menu option provides a convenient way to copy the whole |
137 | contents of the terminal screen and scrollback to the clipboard in |
138 | one go. |
139 | |
140 | \S2{reset-terminal} Clearing and resetting the terminal |
141 | |
142 | The \q{Clear Scrollback} option on the system menu tells PuTTY to |
143 | discard all the lines of text that have been kept after they |
144 | scrolled off the top of the screen. This might be useful, for |
145 | example, if you displayed sensitive information and wanted to make |
146 | sure nobody could look over your shoulder and see it. (Note that |
147 | this only prevents a casual user from using the scrollbar to view |
148 | the information; the text is not guaranteed not to still be in |
149 | PuTTY's memory.) |
150 | |
151 | The \q{Reset Terminal} option causes a full reset of the terminal |
152 | emulation. A VT-series terminal is a complex piece of software and |
153 | can easily get into a state where all the text printed becomes |
154 | unreadable. (This can happen, for example, if you accidentally |
155 | output a binary file to your terminal.) If this happens, selecting |
156 | Reset Terminal should sort it out. |
157 | |
158 | \S2{using-fullscreen} Full screen mode |
159 | |
160 | If you find the title bar on a maximised window to be ugly or |
161 | distracting, you can select Full Screen mode to maximise PuTTY |
162 | \q{even more}. When you select this, PuTTY will expand to fill the |
163 | whole screen and its borders, title bar and scrollbar will |
164 | disappear. (You can configure the scrollbar not to disappear in |
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165 | full-screen mode if you want to keep it; see \k{config-scrollback}.) |
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167 | When you are in full-screen mode, you can still access the system |
168 | menu if you click the left mouse button in the \e{extreme} top left |
169 | corner of the screen. |
170 | |
171 | \H{using-logging} Creating a log file of your session |
172 | |
173 | For some purposes you may find you want to log everything that |
174 | appears on your screen. You can do this using the \q{Logging} panel |
175 | in the configuration box. |
176 | |
177 | To begin a session log, select \q{Change Settings} from the system |
178 | menu and go to the Logging panel. Enter a log file name, and select |
179 | a logging mode. (You can log all session output including the |
180 | terminal control sequences, or you can just log the printable text. |
181 | It depends what you want the log for.) Click \q{Apply} and your log |
182 | will be started. Later on, you can go back to the Logging panel and |
183 | select \q{Logging turned off completely} to stop logging; then PuTTY |
184 | will close the log file and you can safely read it. |
185 | |
186 | See \k{config-logging} for more details and options. |
187 | |
188 | \H{using-translation} Altering your character set configuration |
189 | |
190 | If you find that special characters (accented characters, for |
191 | example) are not being displayed correctly in your PuTTY session, it |
192 | may be that PuTTY is interpreting the characters sent by the server |
193 | according to the wrong \e{character set}. There are a lot of |
194 | different character sets available, so it's entirely possible for |
195 | this to happen. |
196 | |
197 | If you click \q{Change Settings} and look at the \q{Translation} |
198 | panel, you should see a large number of character sets which you can |
199 | select. Now all you need is to find out which of them you want! |
200 | |
201 | \H{using-forwarding} Port forwarding and X forwarding in SSH |
202 | |
203 | \# using X forwarding |
204 | |
205 | \# using port forwarding |
206 | |
207 | \H{using-rawprot} Making raw TCP connections |
208 | |
209 | \# Raw protocol |