X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/8f1612752a89ea821dbd63491aef858f7f7e5bef..2244ea7b2c598fc6d9ca98fb2f668aa312a7cee2:/doc/config.but diff --git a/doc/config.but b/doc/config.but index 3e4ecde7..0d88ef7f 100644 --- a/doc/config.but +++ b/doc/config.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: config.but,v 1.70 2003/10/08 20:09:55 owen Exp $ +\versionid $Id: config.but,v 1.76 2004/03/05 19:01:45 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} @@ -1187,19 +1187,25 @@ disabled. \cfg{winhelp-topic}{selection.buttons} -PuTTY's copy and paste mechanism is modelled on the Unix \c{xterm} -application. The X Window System uses a three-button mouse, and the -convention is that the left button selects, the right button extends -an existing selection, and the middle button pastes. +PuTTY's copy and paste mechanism is by default modelled on the Unix +\c{xterm} application. The X Window System uses a three-button mouse, +and the convention is that the left button selects, the right button +extends an existing selection, and the middle button pastes. -Windows typically only has two mouse buttons, so in PuTTY's default -configuration, the \e{right} button pastes, and the \e{middle} -button (if you have one) extends a selection. +Windows often only has two mouse buttons, so in PuTTY's default +configuration (\q{Compromise}), the \e{right} button pastes, and the +\e{middle} button (if you have one) extends a selection. If you have a three-button mouse and you are already used to the \c{xterm} arrangement, you can select it using the \q{Action of mouse buttons} control. +Alternatively, with the \q{Windows} option selected, the middle +button extends, and the right button brings up a context menu (on +which one of the options is \q{Paste}). (This context menu is always +available by holding down Ctrl and right-clicking, regardless of the +setting of this option.) + \S{config-mouseshift} \q{Shift overrides application's use of mouse} \cfg{winhelp-topic}{selection.shiftdrag} @@ -1558,6 +1564,10 @@ and your SOCKS 4 server cannot deal with it, this might be why. If your proxy requires authentication, you can enter a username and a password in the \q{Username} and \q{Password} boxes. +Note that if you save your session, the proxy password will be +saved in plain text, so anyone who can access your PuTTY +configuration data will be able to discover it. + Authentication is not fully supported for all forms of proxy: \b Username and password authentication is supported for HTTP @@ -1853,7 +1863,7 @@ standards, but one or two server implementations do support it. PuTTY can use single-DES to interoperate with these servers if you enable the \q{Enable legacy use of single-DES in SSH 2} option; by default this is disabled and PuTTY will stick to -the standard. +recommended ciphers. \H{config-ssh-auth} The Auth panel @@ -2047,17 +2057,9 @@ 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 @@ -2293,7 +2295,7 @@ Here is an example \c{PUTTYRND.REG} file: \c REGEDIT4 \c \c [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY] -\c "RandSeedFile"="a:\putty.rnd" +\c "RandSeedFile"="a:\\putty.rnd" You should replace \c{a:\\putty.rnd} with the location where you want to store your random number data. If the aim is to carry around