X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/183f030373dccfeb2ad4f7f1c46aa71d8dfabc93..d2c2927496535d8d67042980001fadede5e19b99:/doc/config.but diff --git a/doc/config.but b/doc/config.but index 65edebe6..6f760972 100644 --- a/doc/config.but +++ b/doc/config.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: config.but,v 1.71 2003/10/08 21:39:54 jacob Exp $ +\versionid $Id: config.but,v 1.73 2004/01/20 12:46:35 jacob Exp $ \C{config} Configuring PuTTY @@ -1142,12 +1142,7 @@ You should use this option if none of the other options works. in Unicode. For good Unicode-supporting fonts this is probably the most reliable and functional option. -\H{config-selection} The Selection panel - -The Selection panel allows you to control the way copy and paste -work in the PuTTY window. - -\S{config-linedrawpaste} Controlling the pasting of line drawing +\S{config-linedrawpaste} Controlling copy and paste of line drawing characters \cfg{winhelp-topic}{selection.linedraw} @@ -1156,18 +1151,23 @@ By default, when you copy and paste a piece of the PuTTY screen that contains VT100 line and box drawing characters, PuTTY will paste them in the form they appear on the screen: either Unicode line drawing code points, or the \q{poor man's} line-drawing characters -\c{+}, \c{-} and \c{|}. The checkbox \q{Paste VT100 line drawing -chars as lqqqk} disables this feature, so line-drawing characters -will be pasted as the ASCII characters that were printed to produce -them. This will typically mean they come out mostly as \c{q} and -\c{x}, with a scattering of \c{jklmntuvw} at the corners. This might -be useful if you were trying to recreate the same box layout in -another program, for example. +\c{+}, \c{-} and \c{|}. The checkbox \q{Copy and paste VT100 line +drawing chars as lqqqk} disables this feature, so line-drawing +characters will be pasted as the ASCII characters that were printed +to produce them. This will typically mean they come out mostly as +\c{q} and \c{x}, with a scattering of \c{jklmntuvw} at the corners. +This might be useful if you were trying to recreate the same box +layout in another program, for example. Note that this option only applies to line-drawing characters which \e{were} printed by using the VT100 mechanism. Line-drawing characters displayed using Unicode will paste as Unicode always. +\H{config-selection} The Selection panel + +The Selection panel allows you to control the way copy and paste +work in the PuTTY window. + \S{config-rtfpaste} Pasting in Rich Text Format \cfg{winhelp-topic}{selection.rtf} @@ -2047,17 +2047,9 @@ To remove a port forwarding, simply select its details in the list box, and click the \q{Remove} button. In the \q{Source port} box, you can also optionally enter an IP -address to listen on. Typically a Windows machine can be asked to -listen on any single IP address in the \cw{127.*.*.*} range, and all -of these are loopback addresses available only to the local machine. -So if you forward (for example) \c{127.0.0.5:79} to a remote -machine's \cw{finger} port, then you should be able to run commands -such as \c{finger fred@127.0.0.5}. This can be useful if the program -connecting to the forwarded port doesn't allow you to change the -port number it uses. This feature is available for local-to-remote -forwarded ports; SSH1 is unable to support it for remote-to-local -ports, while SSH2 can support it in theory but servers will not -necessarily cooperate. +address to listen on, by specifying (for instance) \c{127.0.0.5:79}. +See \k{using-port-forwarding} for more information on how this +works and its restrictions. \S{config-ssh-portfwd-localhost} Controlling the visibility of forwarded ports